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Is warming in the Arctic behind this year’s crazy winter weather in eastern North America?

Blizzards have plagued the Eastern Seaboard while California’s Sierra Nevada stand nearly bare of snow — conditions linked to a changing Arctic.

By Jennifer Francis, Rutgers University January 16, 2018
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Damage from extreme weather events during 2017 racked up the biggest-ever such bills for the U.S. Most of these events involved conditions that align intuitively with global warming: heat records, drought, wildfires, coastal flooding, hurricane damage and heavy rainfall.

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