Arctic slowly building up to full recharge

 

It is still warmer than usual, according to the anomaly charts, but there is a big European warm feed right now.  

This will push out cold air on us.

However, we could get some Pacific air.

This is an interesting article that I can't afford to look at.  They start with all the usual sops to the warmies, but then cut them off at the knees.  However, they do not put up a mechanism, or a hypothesis.