The jet stream has been wandering for as long as I can remember.
We haven’t gotten a freeze in Florida this year, but in past years the jet stream got far enough south to kill off the orange crops, or even kill some of the trees.
I’m afraid this sounds to me like more of this “warmer makes it colder” stuff that they’ve been coming out with for some time.
And as an academic climatologist, she has to stick with the story if she wants a government research grant.
I wonder if the question that brought about her it’s-too-early-to-blame-SUVs response wasn’t something along the lines of “What laws should Obama pass to stop this?”. I would be shocked if this journalist didn’t go into the interview with the expectation that she’d hear the “confirmed wisdom” of St. Algore of Warmth. How many times do you suppose she re-asked the question not believing what she heard?
On the other hand, perhaps Dr. Francis is looking to retire.