How record February heat is priming the US for crop-wrecking 'whiplash'

Forget spring: This week, much of the interior U.S. is getting a sneak preview of summer. A wave of unusual high temperatures — often 30 to 40 degrees above average — are blasting states from Texas to the Dakotas and east to the shores of the Great Lakes. That heat follows the hottest December on…

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