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Record-breaking rain in California was caused by abnormally high temperatures on the other side of the world, study finds


Scientists have identified a "climate teleconnection" between the Rocky Mountains and the Tibetan Plateau, where warm spots left a kink in the jet stream that intensifed weather in the western U.S.

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