One possibility is that the jet streams that normally hit the west coast straight on will instead swing up into Alaska and dive down the coast, bringing along cold arctic winds with it.

CNN: La Nina spawns extreme weather

We were into open country now, running straight up the coast about a mile from the ocean on a two-lane blacktop road across the dunes with no clouds in the sky and a full moon blazing down on the Pacific.

CNN: Doomed Love At The Taco Stand

So they went 15 miles due east right to the edge of the coast, and then went -- basically turned back and made a straight beeline up the coast, and that takes you back to the airport in New Orleans.

WHITEHOUSE: Aboard Air Force One En Route Andrews Air Force Base

He drove from the East Coast to California and then drove straight back.

NEWYORKER: We Are Alive

Vacationers were wearing ponchos instead of swimsuits at the peak of the summer season because of the tropical storm, which has drenched Florida for at least four days straight like a giant shower head set up over the state's Gulf Coast.

MSN: Debby aftermath: Flooded homes, busted roads

You pass flaming oil wells, through the emirates of Sharjah and Ras al-Khaimah, before the endless development withers and the straight road begins to buckle towards the Musandam border, where a cliffside track winds around the fractured coast.

BBC: Oman��s sleepy Musandam Peninsula

Today, Straight Outta Compton is a reminder of brighter days in hip-hop's most notorious left-coast 'hood.

NPR: 'Straight Outta Compton,' 20 Years Later