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

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.

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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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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...

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