Parts of Texas is into day 40 with high temperatures above 100 degrees, and they’re well on track to beat their previous 42 day record set in 1980. When a strong high pressure like the one over Texas occurs, instability around the edges of the system can results in storms along that periperhy. That’s why we have rain and thunderstorms along northern Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas today.

That Texas high pressure is so strong it’s even affecting our weather in California half a continent away. Our summer has been unusually cool, especially along the coast, because of a strong onshore flow. The US National Climate Center says July was the most extreme on record.

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