Many of you may be wondering why the winter so far has not looked much like a typical La Nina winter. Here’s a column from Climate.gov that provides a good explanation for the wild weather this January at the North Pole and how it is affecting our local weather here in the Southeast. There are some maps which show how odd the temperature departures have been and how it has affected not just our weather, but weather around the globe. You can read the story at https://climate.gov/news-features/blogs/enso/sudden-stratospheric-warming-and-polar-vortex-early-2021, including some good questions and answers.
