The weather is wild. One meteorologist on why, and what we can do.
From tornadoes in Florida to floods in Maine, record-setting freezes in Montana to blizzards in Buffalo, extreme weather has battered much of the United States this past week. It left us, along with many Americans, wondering: What, exactly, is going on?
To get some answers, we called up Jeff Masters, the meteorologist who co-founded the online weather forecasting service Weather Underground – and who used to chase hurricanes for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
He told us that some of the winter weather is just, well, winter. But there’s also a lot that has been unusual,
