One of the Northern Hemisphere’s long-lived, winter-weather features is the so-called Siberian high. As winter deepens, this dense mass of cold air becomes a potent weather maker for the Arctic and even temperate North America.
In the Jan. 15 Geophysical Research Letters, scientists report that the strength of the Siberian high is linked to the amount of early-season snow cover in this Russian region.
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