North American winters have varied from mild to extremely cold in recent years. Now, research provides a framework for understanding these changing temperature extremes.
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In the version of this News & Views originally published, the first author for ref. 3 was incorrectly indicated to be Baek-Min Kim, but should have been Mi-Kyung Sung. The DOI of the linked paper was also incorrectly stated as https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-091-0461-5, but should have been https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0461-5. These errors have now been amended.
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Baxter, S. Oscillating American winter temperatures. Nat. Clim. Chang. 9, 354–355 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0469-x
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