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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Seth Borenstein

US weather to go nuts with blizzard, polar vortex, heat dome, atmospheric river all at once

Extreme Weather Socal - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Nearly every part of the United States is getting walloped by wild weather or just about to be.

Days of downpours have begun in Hawaii. The Southwest will soon bake with day after day of record 100-degree-plus (38 Celsius-plus) heat. Two storms will dump snow by the foot over northern Great Lakes states. And the dreaded polar vortex will again invade the Midwest and East with soul-crushing Arctic chill.

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