The United States is getting slammed by a stretch of weather extremes, from flooding rain to record heat and late-season snow.

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    2 days ago

    Messing with the jet stream is terrifying.

    means you get a lot of extremes next to each other,” Maue said. Storm fronts coming from the Pacific hit that high pressure heat dome in the Southwest and are pushed north to climb that mountainous jet stream peak, “grab access to that cold air reservoir up there” and bring it back down south down the other side of the hill, he said.

    Numerous studies have connected unusual jet stream and polar vortex activity to shrinking Arctic sea ice and human-caused climate change.

    The article doesn’t talk about impact on this year’s crops, but I can’t imagine this is good for agriculture.