Ugh, this again. 🥴

Every new year like clockwork, the same "daily" weather maps pop up to diagnose climate change & scare people.

This is typically started by activists on social media & amplified by bigger voices w/o any scientific context. Highly misleading & problematic.
The Arctic has not warmed 24°C. Period. Full stop.

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This is a short weather time scale event caused by atmospheric air flow from the Atlantic Ocean sector transiting or advecting across the Arctic.

Look at bulk Integrated Vapor Transport [IVT]:
Excellent thread by Professor Roundy who is leading expert on large scale atmospheric circulations on synoptic and seasonal time scales. @PaulRoundy1 is pointing out the obvious and does so with evidenced based arguments, as always. https://twitter.com/PaulRoundy1/status/1346070567867265030?s=19
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