Is the snow going to be past due to global warming?

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Snowmageddon has now become an annual ritual. There is rarely a year goes by without someone, somewhere, not been gripped by a blizzard.
The least fortunate some time ago is resident in New York, United States.
With the world getting warmer because of human-made climate change, then the attack blizzard for some people so odd. Are not we supposed to not face the big snow storm if the temperature of the world is getting warmer?
One answer, after the arrival of a huge snowstorm, is that climate change is a myth.
But even if you accept the scientific consensus that climate change is indeed happening, blizzard still provoke confusion. Or maybe the world today is not warm enough to melt all the snow.
The answer is actually rather surprising, that a snowstorm is a consequence of a world that is getting warmer.
Maybe parakdosial but because we assume that the only condition for the snow is cold weather.
In fact, snow requires something else: that a lot of atmospheric moisture. Dew slowly formed in the warm pockets because the atmosphere can carry 7% more water vapor for every increase in temperature of 1 Celsius.
Pockets of water as it will be more due to climate change and could explain the blizzard on the east coast of America in January 2016.
The cold air from the Arctic
One of the impacts of climate change is the Atlantic Ocean is warmer now than a few decades ago. As a consequence of this warming is the air over the Atlantic will also be not as usual, which is to be warm and humid.
When hot air meets the cold dry air from the Arctic, it becomes a winter storm and that means there are the right conditions for the fall of the 'monster' of snow.
The east coast of the US is expected to be hit by extreme winter weather for the next few years, because the elements to create Snowmageddon continue to be created.
Atlantic Ocean will continue to supply hot and humid air into the region in winter and, last but not least, the Arctic continues to send cold air is dry to the south.
"Something that is that the Arctic may be ice-free within a short period of time, within 30 years, which is when the summer. But winter in the Arctic ice will remain moist, "said Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.
Shorter winters?
But climate change is a complicated thing.
Even if a warmer world helps the creation of conditions for extreme snowfall in some areas, it does not mean that more snow in general.
"The snow extreme react very different from seasonal snowfall," says Paul O'Gorman from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT.
For areas less than 1,000 meters above sea level and some time to experience temperatures below freezing, he found that the odds of extreme snowfall will shrink by an average rate of 8%.
But the amount of snow that fell in the region every winter may go down by an average of 65%.
"These areas are where snowfall is expected reduced, while, by comparison, the intensity of extreme snowfall has not changed much, or perhaps even increase," added O'Gorman.
In other words, the snow probably will be further reduced in the future and the snow season may be shorter, but the blizzard might still as powerful as it is now.
Obviously is bad news for businesses that rely on snow.
"A lot of snow on the east coast region of the United States probably would not be able to continue the business due to the nature blizzard is more sporadic, unless they can take advantage of this situation," said Trenberth.

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