dolanbaker wrote:
ps200306 wrote:
mortgageboy wrote:
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057917719
I don't see any snow in there?
It just looks like a run of the mill autumn storm, lots of wind and some rain.
Yup, northern polar night setting in → higher temperature gradient between the tropics and the pole → more energetic jet stream → more turbulent weather in the north Atlantic →
autumn gales.
We should be relieved. Some of the freakish weather earlier in the year was attributable to Arctic warming and an unusually low temperature gradient, which gave a weak jet stream and left persistent weather patterns parked over us.