The New York City area experiences varied weather accompanied by the changing seasons. Winters are usually cold and snowy, springtime and fall are usually fairly warm and somewhat wet, and summer is usually warm to hot and mildly wet. But deviations from this normal pattern do occur, and they have been occurring more and more often as of late.

One abnormality which occured just recently in the summer of 1999 was a series of heat waves accompanied by a drought. The heat waves were caused by the jet stream being too far north, thereby allowing the hot air from the south to travel northward. The drought was caused by a lack of precipitation reaching the area from the Pacific Ocean. These two factors combined led to a very unpleasant and dangerous summer.

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