Powerful polar vortex in the stratosphere brings frigid temperatures to US
A strong polar vortex in the stratosphere has brought subzero temperatures to the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and deep into the ...
The world’s most turbulent flights revealed
In travel news this week: misbehavior on planes, secrets of a cruise ship doctor and the flight routes that were most prone ...
How climate instability may be disrupting the polar vortex
These severe cold events occur when the polar jet stream – the familiar jet stream of winter that runs along the boundary ...
Fasten your seatbelts. These are the world’s 10 most turbulent flight routes
Turbulence in flights is primarily caused by mountains, storms, or jet stream currents, with the Andes and Himalayas being ...
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Is a broken jet stream causing extreme weather that lasts longer?
Scientists are scrambling to understand how climate change may be interfering with the winds that carry our weather, with ...
Inside Climate News13d
Another Polar Vortex Is Blasting the U.S. With Harsh Winter Weather. So How Is Climate Change Involved?
A recent study explains how warmer temperatures at the top of the planet destabilize the jet stream and allow colder air to ...
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Why more frequent cold blasts could be coming from global warming
What's happening is the jet stream — that usually west-to-east river of air way ... When the polar vortex stretches it can either bring that cold air south to the United States or toward Asia, said ...
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Hwang Sa (Yellow Dust)
Originating in the deserts of Northern China and Mongolia, Yellow Dust is whisked into the atmosphere by strong winds and carried to the Korean Peninsula via the jet stream. Other than ... between ...