Wacky weather? Blame a wobbly jet stream

TheStar.com - 6/25/13, Seth Borenson

WASHINGTON—The jet stream, the river of air high above Earth that generally dictates the weather, usually rushes rapidly from west to east in a mostly straight direction.

But lately it seems to be wobbling and weaving like a drunken driver, wreaking havoc as it goes.

“I’ve been doing meteorology for 30 years and the jet stream the last three years has done stuff I’ve never seen,” said Jeff Masters, meteorology director at the private service Weather Underground. “The fact that the jet stream is unusual could be an indicator of something. I’m not saying we know what it is.”

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Signs Of Change The Past Week Or So June 2013 Part 3

HawkkeyDavisChannel, 6/27/13

Published on Jun 26, 2013

The disasters are getting more incredible with each day lately. Floods, tornadoes, record snow, sinkholes and more has taking place the past week or so. For more of this series click the playlist below or subscribe to this channel for future uploads. Thanks for watching here and stay safe!

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Cosme became hurricane and weakened into tropical storm again

The Watchers.com - 6/26/13, Chillmanjaro

Cosme is the second hurricane of the 2013 Eastern Pacific season. During late May, Barbara became a hurricane just prior to making landfall near Puerto Arista, Mexico in the Gulf of Tehuantepec. On June 26, 2013, Hurricane Cosme was battering Clarion Island, Mexico. However, it weakened shortly after and it is now categorized as tropical storm again. The National Hurricane Center expects that Cosme will continue weakening through the day and drop to tropical depression status sometime on June 27, 2013.

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Erratic jet stream brings extremes and warnings to U.S.

The Extinction Protocol, 6/27/13

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4MIN News June 27, 2013: ARkStorm, Plasma Tornado on the Sun

Suspicious Observers, 6/27/13

Published on Jun 27, 2013

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Volcanic activity worldwide 25 Jun 2013

volcanodiscovery June 25,2013

Emission of ash and steam from Popocatépetl yesterday morning

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Storms, floods threaten vast swath of US

Nbcnews.com, 6/25/13, Henry Austin

Flash flood and wildfire warnings were issued on Tuesday, as severe thunderstorms and torrential rainfall were again expected to hit the Midwest and Northeast.

"Once again, thunderstorms are expected to fire in parts of the northern Plains to Lower Great Lakes on Tuesday," the National Weather Service said.

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Map Shows States Most Vulnerable to Sea Level Rise

Wunderground, 6/25/13, Terrel Johnson

In a warming world with rising sea levels, where will be the least vulnerable places to live?

As you can see in the image of the map below, the high-elevation states across the West and Midwest fare best, while the future of the comparatively lower-elevation states in the Southeast and Northeast (especially in New England) is a far less rosy one.

Map of U.S. states above sea level, by volume