Das, a professor of physics, offered insight into how climate change is causing fluctuating temperatures and spontaneous precipitation this winter.
A recent article in the Burlington Times-News taking a look at the erratic weather the local community is experiencing this winter featured the insights of Pranab Das, professor of physics.
Das explained that warming at the north and south poles is causing broad changes that locally have included a December snowstorm followed by higher-than-usual temperatures and then rapid cooling. The region is again facing the prospect of bitterly cold temperatures after more temperate days.
"The problem with this year is that the big cooldown in autumn is delayed because the Arctic is less cold," Das told reporter Andrew Vendelis. "The polar vortex doesn't form as strongly, and the result is loopy patterns that don't move eastward. They stay stuck, and they meander."
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