If we take a peek at the tropopause you can see a sliver of the polar vortex — the light gray and white in the map below — funneling south Sunday morning. At the same time, a weak jet stream ...

The Met Office has issued a red warning ahead of the storm, which is set to bring 100mph gales to parts of the UK within hours. Now, scientists have warned that the storm is 'explosively developing'.

Astronomers have unlocked a new way to explore alien worlds by mapping the 3D structure of an exoplanet’s atmosphere for the ...

Commercial flights bound for Europe have been taking off late from the States but arriving on time or early, thanks to a more powerful jet stream, strengthened by the arctic air mass that settled ...

An unusually strong jet stream over the Atlantic bringing Storm Eowyn to the UK and Ireland is so powerful it pushed a flight travelling to London to near record speeds, data suggests. According to ...

It isn't the return of Concorde — instead, regular wide-body jets were flying through an accelerated jet stream. According to data from Flightradar24, Qatar Airways Flight 704 reached a top ...

In Earth's upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 275 miles (442 km) per hour, but they are not the strongest in our solar system. The ...

The Deep South of the United States was hit with a rare snowstorm, the result of a collision of air pressure systems moved by jet streams toward the Gulf of Mexico. “Wait,” you might be ...

A strengthened jet stream is driving severe weather towards the UK later this week, with strong winds of up to 90mph forecast. After grey but settled weather earlier in the week, Britain could face ...

The reason? Fierce jet stream winds supercharging its speed. The jet stream is like a river of west-to-east winds in the upper atmosphere. Airplanes use it like a highway. If flights are heading ...