Didn't know that about the jet stream. Definitely remember the one in 2012 though.
But there's absolutely no doubt that the planet is getting warmer and that warmer air means more severe storms. Don't see how either of those things can be refuted.
Not refuting it, necessarily, but just attributing this circumstance to other factors that are known to be occurring at this time. A net increase of 1.4 degrees centigrade over 150 years of industrial emission isn't going to suddenly create a problem in a specific area that rarely has dangerous conditions, apart from flooding, because you can't walk 10 dang feet without crossing a river or a stream around here.
According to climate alarmists in the 90s, we should have been underwater by now, been experiencing super hurricanes with 300 mph winds, and have no ice left with fresh water creating a completely new ocean current driving the climate of the world. While not saying these things may not occur over the next several hundred or thousand years, that time table doesn't sell articles, green products, and carbon credits. Chicken Littling has huge financial repercussions if you get enough people worried.
According to climate alarmists in the 70s we should be under an ice flow right now, but there wasn't any way to profit from that prediction because they couldn't make it man made phenomena and then sell us ways to combat the effect.
One can believe we are damaging the world, very slowly, without also believing that Armageddon is perpetually around the corner.
I have a degree in natural and aquatic resources that I obtained in Alaska in the 90s which is a very measurably sensitive area to climate change. It just didn't register as much of a problem though extensive testing and research prior to Gore's movie. Then suddenly the world is ending and he owned a company that developed software on calculating carbon emissions and distribution of a ration system on a global scale that makes countries accountable for their emissions and allows for the trading of those carbon units. He set that up ahead of his Inconvenient Truth documentary. Altruism is not his strong suit. He profited from panic. And he left those of us with observable data from the field a bit skeptical. That is how that can be at least tempered if not refuted.