A warming Arctic Circle could be responsible for bursts of cold weather in the south.

STEPHEN JOHNSON18 February, 2021

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• Winter Storm Uri brought snow and freezing temperatures to Texas this week, causing multiple deaths and damage to infrastructure.
• Climate scientists have spent years exploring the relationship between extreme winter weather and warming temperatures in the Arctic Circle.
• Some studies suggest that the warming Arctic disrupts a natural phenomenon known as the polar vortex, which normally contains cold air in the north.

Winter Storm Uri battered the southern U.S. this week with frigid temperatures and unusually high snowfall. In Texas, the cold weather brought widespread power outages and damage to infrastructure, contributing to at leastseveral dozen deaths.

But while the consequences of the storm are evidence, its causes are more of a mystery. In the context of climate change, the recent weather…