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2025’s extreme weather had the jet stream’s fingerprints all over it, from flash floods to hurricanes

The US had a rare year without a hurricane make landfall, but it saw too much extreme rainfall and flash flooding across the country.

15.12.2025 10

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Shuang-Ye Wu

Why some storms brew up to extreme dimensions in the middle of America – and why it’s happening more often

Rising global temperatures increase the risk of extreme downpours, as a climate scientist explains.

08.04.2025 3

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Shuang-Ye Wu

What the jet stream and climate change had to do with the hottest summer on record − remember all those heat domes?

Summer 2024 was officially the Northern Hemisphere’s hottest on record. In the United States, fierce heat waves seemed to hit somewhere almost...

18.09.2024 1

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Shuang-Ye Wu