The recent weather outlook reveals unusual warmth in Alaska, drought in California, and cold in other parts of the U.S. The conditions that are causing these extremes are explained by Jennifer Francis of the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, who describes how warm polar temperatures produce changes in the polar vortex to cause extreme fluctuation in the jet stream. Read more at Rutgers Today.
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