Summer storm weakening leads to more persistent heat extremes
Thursday, March 12, 2015 - 13:20
in Earth & Climate
Storm activity in large parts of the US, Europe and Russia significantly calmed down during summers over the past decades, but this is no good news. The weakening of strong winds associated with the jetstream and weather systems prolongs and hence intensifies heat extremes like the one in Russia in 2010 which caused devastating crop failures and wildfires.