El Niño rages with full force in the Pacific – is now threatening us a hard ice winter? What the polar vortex has to do with it. A weather column by Dominik Jung.
El Niño rages with full force in the Pacific – is now threatening us a hard ice winter? What the polar vortex has to do with it. A weather column by Dominik Jung.
Europe is likely to experience a winter full of temperature anomalies. The latest long-term model for the coming cold season warns of instability. The traditional course of winter will be disrupted mainly by the strengthening El Niño phenomenon, whose onset has already been confirmed by meteorologists. However, other factors are also adding to it – disappearing Arctic ice and wind anomalies in the stratosphere.