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This summer has brought another extreme: a severe drought that has made lawns crispy and has farmers begging for steady rain.

Huge meanders of the jet stream, or air current, get stuck in place, locking in extreme weather events that can alternately be associated with extreme heat and drought in one location and extreme rainfall in another.

ASCUTNEY — The Upper Valley is settling into a summer drought.Much of Vermont and western New Hampshire were classified as “abnormally dry” — the most moderate drought designation — by the U.S. Drought Monitor, a federal monitoring agency, in the last...

Most of the state is now engulfed in abnormally dry conditions, which state authorities expect to persist and potentially worsen in the coming weeks with above-average temperatures in the forecast.

For a brief stretch in early May, the state was drought-free for the first time in a few years. Those ephemeral conditions evaporated just one week later. They may be increasingly rare with future summertime drought driven by a warming climate. And...