CLEVELAND — Northeast Ohio’s weather this week is a textbook example of how the upper-level jet stream can flip the switch between quick-moving rain showers and prolonged bouts of wintry weather. This week's forecast shows a fast-moving rain chance ...

Picture this: you're checking tomorrow's weather for the tenth time this week, and each time the forecast has shifted. What started as sunny skies morphed into scattered showers, then back to partly cloudy.

Record warmth continues to reside over much of the West as temperatures are running 10-20 degrees above average. Las Vegas is expected to see highs at or near 70 degrees all week, running about 15 degrees above average.

Since it appears that Houston not only will miss out on a white Christmas, we’ll have pretty toasty one instead, we thought we’d spread some holiday cheer with a Festivus-themed

Jet stream winds above are pretty well north of our state, guaranteeing more warm and dry days for our state. Daytime high temperatures will be in the 50s

Check out Colorado's strongest wind gusts from Wednesday. And get ready for back-to-back First Alert Weather Days on Thursday and Friday as more damaging wind gusts are possible before the weekend.

Finally, the wavy jet stream became locked in place by persistent high-pressure systems, anchoring storm tracks over the same regions. This led to repeated episodes of heavy rainfall and catastrophic flooding across much of the continental U.S. The same behavior can leave other regions facing days of unrelenting heat waves.