{"id":535304,"date":"2023-01-05T00:40:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T21:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/wild-weather-driven-by-roiling-pacific-nature-and-warming\/"},"modified":"2023-01-05T00:40:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T21:40:15","slug":"wild-weather-driven-by-roiling-pacific-nature-and-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wild-weather-driven-by-roiling-pacific-nature-and-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"#Wild weather driven by roiling Pacific, nature and warming"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6aeda21f84308\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6aeda21f84308\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wild-weather-driven-by-roiling-pacific-nature-and-warming\/#%E2%80%9CWild_weather_driven_by_roiling_Pacific_nature_and_warming%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Wild weather driven by roiling Pacific, nature and warming&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWild_weather_driven_by_roiling_Pacific_nature_and_warming%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Wild weather driven by roiling Pacific, nature and warming&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2023\/wild-weather-driven-by.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/hires\/2023\/wild-weather-driven-by.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Nurse Katie Leonard uses a kayak to bring supplies to Patsy Costello, 88, as she sits trapped in her vehicle for over an hour on Astrid Drive in Pleasant Hill, Calif., on Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022. Costello drove her car on the flooded street thinking she could make it when it stalled in the two feet of water. After two hours the water had receded about a foot making it easier to rescue her. Police were called but stood by and watched after calling in a tow truck to help pull the car out of the water. Nurse Katie Leonard, of Pleasant Hill, lives down the block used her kayak to bring Costello hot tea, blankets, food and a phone to call a friend. Credit: Jose Carlos Fajardo\/Bay Area News Group via AP\">\n<figure class=\"article-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2023\/wild-weather-driven-by.jpg\" alt=\"Wild weather driven by roiling Pacific, nature and warming\" title=\"Nurse Katie Leonard uses a kayak to bring supplies to Patsy Costello, 88, as she sits trapped in her vehicle for over an hour on Astrid Drive in Pleasant Hill, Calif., on Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022. Costello drove her car on the flooded street thinking she could make it when it stalled in the two feet of water. After two hours the water had receded about a foot making it easier to rescue her. Police were called but stood by and watched after calling in a tow truck to help pull the car out of the water. Nurse Katie Leonard, of Pleasant Hill, lives down the block used her kayak to bring Costello hot tea, blankets, food and a phone to call a friend. Credit: Jose Carlos Fajardo\/Bay Area News Group via AP\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js text-truncate mt-3\">\n                Nurse Katie Leonard uses a kayak to bring supplies to Patsy Costello, 88, as she sits tr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed in her vehicle for over an hour on Astrid Drive in Pleasant Hill, Calif., on Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022. Costello drove her car on the flooded street thinking she could make it when it stalled in the two feet of water. After two hours the water had receded about a foot making it easier to rescue her. Police were called but stood by and watched after calling in a tow truck to help pull the car out of the water. Nurse Katie Leonard, of Pleasant Hill, lives down the block used her kayak to bring Costello hot tea, blankets, food and a phone to call a friend. Credit: Jose Carlos Fajardo\/Bay Area <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> Group via AP<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a world getting used to extreme weather, 2023 is starting out more bonkers than ever and meteorologists are saying it&#8217;s natural weather weirdness with a bit of help from human-caused climate change.<\/p>\n<section class=\"article-banner first-banner ads-336x280\"><!-- \/4988204\/Phys_Story_InText_Box --><br \/>\n      <\/section>\n<p>Much of what&#8217;s causing problems worldwide is coming out of a roiling Pacific Ocean, transported by a wavy jet stream, experts said.<\/p>\n<p>At least one highway in drought-mired California looked more like a river because of torrential rain from what is technically called an atmospheric river of moisture. New Year&#8217;s brought shirtsleeve weather to the U.S. East and record high temperatures to Europe as the Northern Hemisphere on Wednesday was more than <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/climatereanalyzer.org\/wx\/todays-weather\/?var_id=t2anom&amp;ortho=1&amp;wt=1\">2.6 degrees (1.4 degrees Celsius) hotter<\/a> than the late 20th century average. And this is after frigid air escaped the Arctic to create a Christmas mess for much of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the ingredients are in place for two weeks of wild weather especially in the Western U.S.,&#8221; private meteorologist Ryan Maue said in an email.<\/p>\n<p>Maue said the big driver is a three-year La Nina\u2014natural temporary cooling of the equatorial Pacific Ocean that alters world weather patterns\u2014that just won&#8217;t quit. It is creating literal waves in the weather systems that ripple across the globe. And on certain parts of the waves are storms where the atmospheric pressure drops low and quickly, called bomb cyclones, that are quite wet, and they <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> on atmospheric waves that transport the weather called the jet stream.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2023\/wild-weather-driven-by-1.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/hires\/2023\/wild-weather-driven-by-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Cars drive through a flooded section of Harrison Road in Salinas, Calif., Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022. Credit: AP Photo\/Nic Coury\">\n<figure class=\"article-img text-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2023\/wild-weather-driven-by-1.jpg\" alt=\"Wild weather driven by roiling Pacific, nature and warming\" title=\"Cars drive through a flooded section of Harrison Road in Salinas, Calif., Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022. Credit: AP Photo\/Nic Coury\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-left text-darken text-truncate text-low-up mt-3\">\n                Cars drive through a flooded section of Harrison Road in Salinas, Calif., Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022. Credit: AP Photo\/Nic Coury<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The jet stream now is unusually wavy, said Maue and Woodwell Climate Research Center climate scientist Jennifer Francis. The storms dip over the warm subtropics &#8220;and create a conveyor belt of of moisture to strafe the West Coast of the U.S,&#8221; Maue said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d describe the jet stream and bomb cyclones as a runaway Pacific freight train loaded with moisture,&#8221; said Maue, former chief scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the Trump administration. &#8220;Climate change adds more fuel to the locomotive engine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More than 5 inches of rain fell on Saturday in the Sacramento area and California braced for bigger storms Wednesday and Thursday. As of Wednesday, snowpack was third highest in 40 years, more than 170% of normal.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to La Nina, a different natural temporary weather event called the Madden-Julian Oscillation enhances storms in the western Pacific, Maue said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2023\/wild-weather-driven-by-2.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/hires\/2023\/wild-weather-driven-by-2.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"People take part in a New Year's Day swim at Barry Island, Wales, Sunday Jan. 1, 2023. Credit: Ben Birchall\/PA via AP\">\n<figure class=\"article-img text-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2023\/wild-weather-driven-by-2.jpg\" alt=\"Wild weather driven by roiling Pacific, nature and warming\" title=\"People take part in a New Year's Day swim at Barry Island, Wales, Sunday Jan. 1, 2023. Credit: Ben Birchall\/PA via AP\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-left text-darken text-truncate text-low-up mt-3\">\n                People take part in a New Year&#8217;s Day swim at Barry Island, Wales, Sunday Jan. 1, 2023. Credit: Ben Birchall\/PA via AP<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Francis points to a &#8220;blob&#8221; of warm sea water off the Aleutian Islands, a phenomena that is happening more often, and a &#8221;crazy warm&#8221; Arctic\u2014Wednesday it was 5.8 degrees (3.2 degrees Celsius) warmer than the 1979-2000 average\u2014as part of what&#8217;s juicing up the Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>And with a wavier than normal jet stream, extremes of all kinds go up and down and around the planet, Francis said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can think of it like a jump rope. When you start to flick it at one end, that ripple goes through the whole jump rope eventually,&#8221; Francis said Wednesday. &#8220;And so it could be that the waving as such, being perhaps driven in the Pacific, could be accentuating it also over Europe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A weather station in Delemont, Switzerland, on the French border, smashed its January record with an average daily temperature of 18.1 degrees Celsius (nearly 65 Fahrenheit) on the first day of the year. In Bucharest, Romania, on Tuesday it broke a January record at 17.2 degrees Celsius (63 degrees Fahrenheit) and it was 17.9 degrees Celsius (64.2 Fahrenheit) in the Russian Republic of Dagestan, according to extreme weather tracker Maximiliano Herrera.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2023\/wild-weather-driven-by-3.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/hires\/2023\/wild-weather-driven-by-3.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"200 cyclists, some dressed in costumes, ride their bikes on the ski slopes during the start of the 33rd edition of the 'GP St-Sylvestre', a new-year snow mountain bike race, in the alpine resort of Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022. Credit: Laurent Gillieron\/Keystone via AP\">\n<figure class=\"article-img text-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2023\/wild-weather-driven-by-3.jpg\" alt=\"Wild weather driven by roiling Pacific, nature and warming\" title=\"200 cyclists, some dressed in costumes, ride their bikes on the ski slopes during the start of the 33rd edition of the 'GP St-Sylvestre', a new-year snow mountain bike race, in the alpine resort of Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022. Credit: Laurent Gillieron\/Keystone via AP\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-left text-darken text-truncate text-low-up mt-3\">\n                200 cyclists, some dressed in costumes, ride their bikes on the ski slopes during the start of the 33rd edition of the &#8216;GP St-Sylvestre&#8217;, a new-year snow mountain bike race, in the alpine resort of Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022. Credit: Laurent Gillieron\/Keystone via AP<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Swiss weather service MeteoSuisse quipped on its blog: &#8220;&#8230; this turn of the new year could almost make you forget that it&#8217;s the height of winter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This extreme weather has &#8220;a silver lining,&#8221; especially with the record heat in Europe in January easing winter heating fuel crunches caused by Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine, said Colorado meteorologist Bob Henson of Yale Climate Connections. And California, where there&#8217;s been a more than 20-year megadrought that worsens wildfires, is getting much-needed rain and snow\u2014too much of it, actually.<\/p>\n<p>Roads and levees in California were washed out early in the week. Schools were closed Wednesday in the San Francisco area as more than 8,000 sandbags were given out in anticipation of extensive flooding. Flights were cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Excessive rainfall over already saturated soils will result in rapid rises on creeks, streams and rivers as well as flooding in urban areas,&#8221; forecasters said in a report.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2023\/wild-weather-driven-by-4.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/hires\/2023\/wild-weather-driven-by-4.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Three vehicles are submerged on Dillard Road west of Highway 99 in south Sacramento County in Wilton, Calif., Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023, after heavy rains on New Year's Eve produced levee breaks. Saturday's system was warmer and wetter, while storms this week will be colder, said Hannah Chandler-Cooley, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Sacramento. The Sacramento region could receive a total of 4 to 5 inches (10 to 13 centimeters) of rain over the week, Chandler-Cooley said. Credit: Hector Amezcua\/The Sacramento Bee via AP\">\n<figure class=\"article-img text-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2023\/wild-weather-driven-by-4.jpg\" alt=\"Wild weather driven by roiling Pacific, nature and warming\" title=\"Three vehicles are submerged on Dillard Road west of Highway 99 in south Sacramento County in Wilton, Calif., Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023, after heavy rains on New Year's Eve produced levee breaks. Saturday's system was warmer and wetter, while storms this week will be colder, said Hannah Chandler-Cooley, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Sacramento. The Sacramento region could receive a total of 4 to 5 inches (10 to 13 centimeters) of rain over the week, Chandler-Cooley said. Credit: Hector Amezcua\/The Sacramento Bee via AP\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-left text-darken text-truncate text-low-up mt-3\">\n                Three vehicles are submerged on Dillard Road west of Highway 99 in south Sacramento County in Wilton, Calif., Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023, after heavy rains on New Year&#8217;s Eve produced levee breaks. Saturday&#8217;s system was warmer and wetter, while storms this week will be colder, said Hannah Chandler-Cooley, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Sacramento. The Sacramento region could receive a total of 4 to 5 inches (10 to 13 centimeters) of rain over the week, Chandler-Cooley said. Credit: Hector Amezcua\/The Sacramento Bee via AP<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Except for the impressive record heat in Europe, &#8220;which is yet another example of the manifestation of human-induced climate change,&#8221; Northern Illinois University meteorology professor Victor Gensini said he finds nothing too unusual.<\/p>\n<p>Weather is naturally extreme &#8220;so the recent events we&#8217;ve been seeing can occur naturally,&#8221; said Weather Underground co-founder Jeff Masters now at Yale Climate Connections. &#8220;But with the disruption to global weather patterns that climate change is bringing the probability of seeing unusual weather events in any season increases.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-main__note mt-4\">\n                                                  \u00a9 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. 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