A warmer, wetter atmosphere, coupled with slowing jet stream winds and a greater tendency for weather patterns to stall, may have contributed to the worst flooding since 2012
Weather has always been extreme, but the summer of 2023 has experienced a new level of heat, drought, biblical flooding and billion-dollar weather and climate disasters.
Confidence levels are high that the the fall and winter months will be milder and drier than average, based on a developing Super El Nino pattern in the Pacific Ocean
The hottest weather of the summer may come in early September, which is unusual - while tens of millions of American living in the southeastern US grapple with dangerous Hurricane Idalia