It has been a wild stretch of dangerous weather. The Midwest has seen one of its most violent starts to a severe season in years, with tornado outbreaks rolling through Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, and beyond, and June running near the top of the record books for damaging wind reports. As I write this a heat dome is settling over the middle of the country, with feels-like temperatures climbing past a hundred. Out west, Colorado and the rest of the interior are dry and burning, with crews fighting wildfires in country that keeps getting hotter. If it feels like the weather has been relentless this year, it is not just you.
