![]() ![]() ![]() The northeast is still, overall, one of the fastest-warming parts of the country. ![]() “So we can still have these really cold air masses… and particularly during the winter, it can continue to get colder and colder until the jet stream moves it out.” “With climate change … we have these periods of time where we have an air mass sitting in one location for a long time,” Fode said. She said the pattern of the jet stream, which “moves warmer air northward and colder air southward,” is becoming “much more stable – in other words, it doesn’t change as much.” But climate change affects the movement of both hot and cold air, Fode said. Warming air and sea temperatures, caused by human use of fossil fuels, are shortening winters, heating summers and otherwise reshaping New England’s seasons. January made for a bitter start to the year after one of Maine’s warmest falls on record. And Caribou had a two-week stretch of days with lows below zero, the eight-longest such cold snap on record. Much of the state also saw several inches more snow than normal. The average temperature in the Caribou region this January was 6.7 degrees, ranking as the fifth coldest of the last 30 years and in the top 20 since temps were first recorded in 1939. Bitter cold with the winds but absolutely beautiful up here on the tundra. (3/3) Sunset on fresh snowpack on the northern outskirts of Caribou. ![]()
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