While they were embedded in a 260-mph jet stream, they weren’t cruising through the surrounding air any faster — the air was moving with them. Their ground speed was extra fast, though.

As the Arctic rapidly warms, the temperature difference between the polar region and lower latitudes decreases, which weakens ...

Scientists are scrambling to understand how climate change may be interfering with the winds that carry our weather, with ...

The jet stream plays a crucial role in shaping global weather patterns, affecting everything from hurricanes to heatwaves. This high-altitude air current guides storms, influences temperatures, and ...

Meteorologists often blame unusual weather events on the movements of a jet stream, not to be confused with the similarly active Gulf Stream. Learn the key differences between the two before the ...

One of the most devastating (and hardest to mitigate) effects of climate change for the Northern Hemisphere is the slowing of ...

These severe cold events occur when the polar jet stream – the familiar jet stream of winter that runs along the boundary between Arctic and more temperate air – dips deeply southward ...

“The jet stream is a fast flowing, narrow current of air high up in the Earth's atmosphere,” said Knox. “Typically going from west to east, and formed at the boundary between significantly ...