Sky News report that traces this winter’s Jet Stream set-up from Indonesia, across the pacific to the warmer-than-normal Alaska, drought ridden California, frigid US East, and across the Atlantic to catastrophic storms in the UK. This report is a month old, but still holds up as the pattern described continues.
What Meteorologists have been calling Ridiculously Resilient Ridge still holds. This map is from accuweather.com today.
This has to be making scientists worry. This constant ridge is not a good thing. It spells disaster for crops.