North America’s Weather Turns Weird, Wild, and Extreme. Here’s Why

An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post:
An outbreak of severe storms, including deadly tornadoes, hail bigger than DVDs and life-threatening flooding, has ravaged the South, coming amid a month of wild weather across North America. Texas is baking beneath heat indexes as high as 120 degrees, the coasts are cool and mostly calm and Canadian wildfire smoke is suffocating much of the northern U.S.

If it seems the weather has been a little bit “off” since the calendar flipped to June, you’re not imagining it — things have been downright weird. It’s all linked to a bizarre jet stream pattern, which is displacing air masses from their typical positions and disrupting the movement of weather systems across the continent.
Among other things, the jet stream created a sprawling heat dome in Canada which “helped sap the landscape of…