Temperatures during the winter of 2024-2025 in Minnesota wer…
Temperatures during the winter of 2024-2025 in Minnesota were abnormally high, with a handful of days with high temperatures below 0oF temperatures (below -18oC). In Week 1’s weekly project, you explored the causes of the abnormally warm winter and large temperature fluctuations and how they relate to the diagram below. Indicate whether each statement is true or false. 1) The band of blue horizontal arrows show the Northern hemisphere’s Hadley Cell. 2) When the white arrows push downward over Minnesota (as shown in the diagram), temperatures in Minnesota are lower than average. 3) The band of blue horizontal arrows is becoming curvier (less straight) over the years as a direct effect of the increasing El Niño climate pattern. 4) A major cause of large temperature fluctuations is an increasing temperature difference between the polar and the temperate regions of the planet.