Considerable Arctic Sea ice loss as a factor of cold weather and heavy snowfalls in Eurasia

Abstract

There goes climate warming on the Earth. An especially tremendous warming goes in the Arctic. This causes shrinking of the sea ice extent in the Arctic. Considerable Arctic Sea ice loss can lead to some extra evaporation of water vapor from the sea surface and saturation of the atmosphere with water vapor. Due to atmospheric circulation, extreme temperature anomalies and heavy snowfalls can appear in the following winter season in the lower latitudes, according to a number of studies. Some warm winters in Eurasia and America are associated with a situation in the Arctic where an extremely stable area of low pressure in the vicinity of the North Pole was present during a long time period and did not let cold air masses to move away from its borders. As a consequence, in most of the territory of Russia, USA, Northern Europe, and Eastern Canada the temperature of the winter months was a few degrees more than the usual one, for example in 2019/2020 winter months. The resulting destruction of the North Pole vortex and coming of cold air masses to Eurasia and America lead to a cold snowy winter.