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Arctic Heatwave Drives Deadly Asian Cold Snap

By Garry Rogers @Garry_Rogers

GR: And more storms for Great Britain. The extreme events might soon outpace all (well, the few that care) reporters. Thank you Robert Scribbler.

Arctic Heatwave Drives Deadly Asian Cold Snaprobertscribbler

In the Arctic today, there’s a warm wind howling over Siberia. It’s a wind blowing from the northwest. A wind originating from the Arctic Ocean. Siberia is warming up today because warm air blew in from the direction of the North Pole. This should strike everyone as ridiculously, insanely odd.

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In Okinawa it snowed for the first time on record this weekend. In Taiwan, a cold snap turned deadly killing 85 as tens of thousands more huddled in homes that lacked any form of central heating. In South Korea, 500 flights were grounded due to unseasonable weather. In Hong Kong, the temperature was 3 C — the same temperature as a region near the southwestern coast of Svalbard east of Greenland and above the Arctic Circle.

What the hell is going on? In short, a global warming driven heat-up of the Arctic has punched a hole in the…

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