Climate Changed
Kink in the Jet Stream and Climate Change Spur Extreme Weather
- Warming climate making summer hotter in Northern Hemisphere
- Atmospheric mayhem causes wildfires, heat, flooding rains
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Kinked, buckled, stuck or stalled, it doesn’t matter how you describe it, the jet stream -- the ribbon of wind that circles the Earth -- is doing strange things.
The calamity list includes wildfires across Scandinavia, Greece and California, record heat in Texas, Japan and Africa and flooding rains along the U.S. East Coast that could last another week. The world is hotter in general, which means when temperatures spike, they do so off a higher baseline.