A brutal and potentially historic heat wave is in store for the West as
parts of Nevada, Arizona and California may get dangerously hot
temperatures starting Thursday and lasting through next week. In fact,
by the end of the heat wave, we may see a record tied or broken for the
hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth.
The furnace-like heat is coming courtesy of a “stuck” weather pattern
that is setting up across the U.S. and Canada. Starting this weekend,
the jet stream — a
fast-moving river of air at airliner altitudes that is responsible for
steering weather systems — will form the shape of a massive, slithering
snake with what meteorologists refer to as a deep “ridge” across the
Western states, and an equally deep trough seting up across the Central
and Eastern states.
For the rest of the story: http://www.climatecentral.org/news/heat-wave-to-threaten-worlds-hottest-temperature-record-16161
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