Mashable: Fierce North Atlantic storm to send temperatures soaring at North Pole (again)
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1 min readFeb 9, 2017
While this powerful storm is noteworthy on its own, its impacts across the Arctic will be especially significant.
The Arctic has had a freakishly warm winter to follow its warmest year on record. Sea ice extent continues to limp along at an anemic record low for this time of year, due to weather patterns and long-term climate change. The Arctic is warming at twice the rate of the rest of the globe, mainly because of feedback loops in the climate system that kick in as snow and ice melts and darker land and sea surfaces are exposed to the sun.
Meanwhile, record high temperatures last week on the East Coast of the US have been followed by the strongest winter storm of the year thus far.
72 degrees F followed by massive blizzards. THIS IS FINE.
