{"id":118239,"date":"2021-01-09T14:24:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T22:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/imminent-sudden-stratospheric-warming-to-occur-bringing-increased-risk-of-snow-over-coming-weeks"},"modified":"2021-01-09T14:24:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T22:24:18","slug":"imminent-sudden-stratospheric-warming-to-occur-bringing-increased-risk-of-snow-over-coming-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/imminent-sudden-stratospheric-warming-to-occur-bringing-increased-risk-of-snow-over-coming-weeks","title":{"rendered":"Imminent sudden stratospheric warming to occur, bringing increased risk of snow over coming weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/imminent-sudden-stratospheric-warming-to-occur-bringing-increased-risk-of-snow-over-coming-weeks3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study led by researchers at the Universities of Bristol, Exeter, and Bath helps to shed light on the winter weather we may soon have in store following a dramatic meteorological event currently unfolding high above the North Pole.<\/p>\n<p>Weather forecasting models are predicting with increasing confidence that a sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) event will take place today, 5 January 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The stratosphere is the layer of the atmosphere from around 10-50km above the earth\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/surface\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">surface<\/a>. SSW events are some of the most extreme of atmospheric phenomena and can see polar stratospheric temperature increase by up to 50\u00b0C over the course of a few days. Such events can bring very cold <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/weather\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">weather<\/a>, which often result in snowstorms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study led by researchers at the Universities of Bristol, Exeter, and Bath helps to shed light on the winter weather we may soon have in store following a dramatic meteorological event currently unfolding high above the North Pole. Weather forecasting models are predicting with increasing confidence that a sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) event [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}