Quoted: “It?s historic from just about any perspective that you want to take,” said Jonathan Martin, a UW-Madison atmospheric science professor. “Conditions have been perfect for a series of these outbreaks, one of the conditions is really moist air in the boundary layer, the lowest part of the atmosphere. Another very important condition is strong wave type disturbances in the middle troposphere, strong jet stream, and that?s been in place. We don?t know how it got as strong as it got in this particular instance; sometimes it?s interesting to find that out.”
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