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The Northern hemisphere summer #jetstream in 2018 manifested a wave pattern that led to simultaneous heatwaves and droughts in the Northern breadbaskets in USA Europe and Russia.
It's a wave-7 pattern in which the wind band shows 7 wave lows
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What it laps up in the lower latitudes as warm temperatures is then dumped on the mid- to high latitudes.

And this, together with its impacts on food production in the affected regions, is projected to occur more often the hotter it gets.
Here are the research papers for the 2018 occurrence:
scholar.google.de/scholar?hl=e

Kornhuber et al 2023 take it to show how risks of synchronized low yields are underestimated in climate and crop model projections nature.com/articles/s41467-023