There are patterns that happen, particularly when you have five of these waves going round the world. And so i it wants to move this way, the jet stream is pushing it this way. We've been looking at these kinds of events for many, many decades,. and there's some indication that they may be kind of changing a little bit. Twith climate change, i would say tat that's very much at the cutting edge of what we understand, ond what we don't.
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