Anonymous21 days ago
The United States faces a historically rare simultaneous convergence of extreme weather phenomena in mid-March 2026, including a record-shattering heat dome over the Southwest, a polar vortex invasion bringing Arctic cold to the Midwest and East, back-to-back blizzards dumping feet of snow on the Great Lakes, and an atmospheric river flooding Hawaii. Scientists point to an unusually volatile jet stream, a collapsing polar vortex, and the compounding effects of climate change as the driving forces behind a pattern that one former NOAA chief scientist says will deliver extreme weather to all 50 states.