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How the UK cold snap relates to climate change

It turns out our current weather can be blamed on a meteorological event called “sudden stratospheric warming.” It all starts with a pool of cold air about thirty kilometres above the North Pole. A specific set of meteorological circumstances lead to the air being compressed, which in turn makes it up to 50 degrees warmer in a matter of days. When that happens, it sets off a chain of events that lead more often than not to wintry conditions for all of us on the ground. What is sudden stratospheric warming? increase in frequency because of climate change.

Just last week researchers from Newcastle University published a paper analysing how floods, droughts Dr Karsten Haustein works on the World Weather Attribution project at Oxford. He and his colleagues are working on as near to real-time event attribution as possible, and they analysed the recent cold weather in December and January in the US.

They found that rather than becoming more frequent, those cold spells were becoming rarer, and not as cold as they used to be.