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Editor's note: Follow USA TODAY's Thursday coverage of a winter storm impacting the eastern US. The latest wave of lake-effect snow began crashing across parts of the nation's northern tier ...
The Arctic blast and the lake effect produced by it will be brief. As high pressure slides off the Atlantic coast by the end of the week, the cold will ease, and the lake-effect snow will cease ...
The relatively snow-free days are coming to an end. A strong Arctic cold front will cross northern Ohio Wednesday night into Thursday bringing with it gusty winds and some snow. The National ...
Shockingly cold air funneled directly from the Arctic will be making an unwelcome appearance across nearly the entire eastern half of the country this weekend and into early next week, forecasters ...
Another effect is that sunlight has to go through more atmosphere to reach the ground. [1] The polar climate regions are characterized by a lack of warm summers but with varying winters. Every month a polar climate has an average temperature of less than 10 °C (50 °F). Regions with a polar climate cover more than 20% of the Earth's area.
As the Arctic continues receiving energy from the sun during this time, the land, which is mostly free of snow by now, can warm up on clear days when the wind is not coming from the cold ocean. Over the Arctic Ocean the snow cover on the sea ice disappears and ponds of melt water start to form on the sea ice, further reducing the amount of ...
The first arctic outbreak of the season is allowing temperatures to plunge across the eastern half of the country, creating "dangerously cold" wind chills of 15-30 degrees below zero in the ...
The Arctic's indigenous people have a long relationship with its icy conditions, and face the loss of their cultural heritage. Further, there are numerous implications which go beyond the Arctic region. Sea ice loss not only enhances warming in the Arctic but also adds to global temperature increase through the ice-albedo feedback.