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Why it's so hot this summer | Learn English phrasal verb 'cool off'

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The Jet Stream and the Heat Dome

In the US, Texas, Oklahoma, Nevada, Arizona and Colorado have experienced record setting heat. Chicago is outside the heat dome but got heavy rains in early July. In some areas, 6 to 8 inches of rain fell in just 24 hours. How can this weather pattern end? The jet stream could keep its same form, but shift position. That would put different areas under theHeat domes won't go away until the jet stream breaks its wave-shaped pattern.

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