The jet stream plays a crucial role in shaping global weather patterns, affecting everything from hurricanes to heatwaves.

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

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

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 ...

Most of the teams plan to catch a ride on the jet stream, which will carry the balloons around the Earth. Therefore, for global balloonists, troughs and ridges present the least desirable air flow ...

The planes didn’t break the sound barrier because it was the air moving them so quickly, not their engines. The report compared it to someone walking on a moving walkway at an airport – the person is ...

Think of a jet stream as a river of fast-moving air that not only drives the global weather system, it also affects regional climates and can determine whether our area experiences warm or cold ...

How the Polar Vortex Can Bring Arctic Blasts to the U.S. Vast weather patterns can carry blasts of frigid air far from the ...

When Virgin Atlantic Flight 10 took off from New York’s JFK International Airport this week, it was running 1 hour 13 minutes ...

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) ...

Storm Eowyn has resulted in jet stream winds in excess of 260mph over the east coast of the US, meaning records could be ...