2025’s extreme weather had the jet stream’s fingerprints all over it, from flash floods to hurricanes

By: Shuang-Ye Wu, University of Dayton, The Conversation

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Published: December 15, 2025

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Last Updated: 3 weeks, 6 days ago

By Shuang-Ye Wu, 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, steered clear of the U.S. mainland.

Both scenarios were unusual – and they …

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