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Melting sea ice makes northern winters more severe

Analysis confirms strong link between Arctic sea-ice loss and winter temperatures.
Pigeons fly in front of a man after a snowfall in Thessaloniki

Countries such as Greece have often been hit by freezing winter weather during the past two decades. Credit: Giannis Papanikos/AP/Shutterstock

In spite of global warming, parts of Eurasia have seen a number of unusually harsh winters in the past couple of decades — a puzzling countertrend that is mainly the result of drastic sea-ice retreat in the Arctic Ocean.

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Nature 565, 400 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-00132-x

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