If it was this article on the Beaufort Gyre you refer to you are quite right; it's fascinating. It could well be that 'The Hunt For Cold' is more meaningfully focused on the reversal event herelded here. I feel our experience of warming winters over the last 20 years or so points to a big change such as this as a prerequisite before we can have reliable snow events in these Islands again.
How a Wayward Arctic Current Could Cool the Climate in Europe
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The Beaufort Gyre, a key Arctic Ocean current, is acting strangely. Scientists say it may be on the verge of discharging a huge amount of ice and cold...