2025’s extreme weather had the jet stream’s fingerprints all over it, from flash floods to hurricanes
- Written by Shuang-Ye Wu, Professor of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, University of Dayton
The summer of 2025 brought unprecedented flash flooding across the U.S., with the central and eastern regions hit particularly hard. These storms claimed hundreds of lives across Texas, Kentucky and several other states and caused widespread destruction.
At the same time, every hurricane that formed, including the three powerful Category 5 storms, s...
