4500 record highs broken: Jet stream pulled up towards Canada, 'out of whack' says U.S. meteorologist [1]

4500 record highs broken: Jet stream pulled up towards Canada, 'out of whack' says U.S. meteorologist [2]

It's not that the Midwest hasn't been extremely hot before, and it's not that it hasn't been incredibly dry. But it's unusual for a vast swath of the Midwest to be so very hot and so very dry for so very long - particularly this early in the summer. The current heat wave - which is spurring comparisons to the catastrophic heat of 1936 - is "out of whack," meteorologist Jim Keeney said Friday in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. "Even on the East Coast today, temperatures are 100 or above" - basically, Keeney said, the heat wave extends from Kansas all the way to the East Coast.