Texas temperatures are on fire - blame a kink in the jet stream

(Bloomberg) -- Sweltering? Swimming? Choking on wildfire smoke? Blame it on the jet stream.
Kinked, buckled, stuck or stalled, it doesn’t matter how you describe it, the ribbon of wind that circles the Earth is doing strange things and the calamity list includes wildfires across Scandinavia, Greece and California, record heat in Texas, Japan and Africa and flooding rains along the U.S. East Coast that could last another week.
“We are seeing some extreme jet-stream behavior, where the