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Warming in the South Seas means wet west coast

Distance impact on US Winter (DJF) precipitation. Credit: Nature Geoscience (2025). doi:10.1038/s41561-025-01669-5 As global temperatures warm, the southern oceans between Antarctica and other continents ultimately release heat absorbed from the atmosphere, predicting long-term increases in precipitation in East Asia and the western United States, regardless of climate mitigation efforts. These teleconnections between the tropical Pacific and distant regions have been…