Blizzard warning in Hawaii, record high temperatures across continental US
by Associated Press in Seattle from on (#5SP36)
December opens to weather extremes, with a stuck jet stream and a La Nina phenomenon producing bizarre effects
A blizzard warning for normally balmy Hawaii and an absence of snow in mountainous Colorado were among a series of bizarre weather forecasts and events in the US as December began.
Meteorologists attributed the latest batch of record-shattering weather extremes to a stuck jet stream and the effects of a La Nina weather pattern from cooling Pacific waters.
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