Everything is connected to everything else. So, what's come of that powerful North Atlantic storm that pumped so much warm air into the Arctic?
The normal Polar Vortex has basically split in two, with a powerful vortex centered over the North Atlantic near the UK, and an even more powerful vortex over the North Pacific, centered over the Sea of Okhotsk. Warm air is funneling from the North Atlantic over the Pole, with displaced polar air moving into Siberia. Parts of Siberia will see a cold snap as the polar air comes south. Temperatures will start dropping on January 6th at Tiksi, Siberia, and get pretty freakin' cold.
The North Pacific vortex is making the northwest Pacific very stormy, but it's a little too far west to affect California that much. Nevertheless, the extra kick of cold polar air from Siberia will eventually set off a train of storms east of Japan that will hit California pretty hard around January 15th. Whatever it takes to boost our precipitation totals and put a few snowflakes in the Sierra Nevada. Even if it screws up the entire Northern Hemisphere in the process.
And how should people adjust? I recommend this approach:
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