Most summers, the polar jet stream retreats northward into Canada and weakens considerably, leaving the continental U.S. with ...

New beauty shots of Jupiter, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, reveal a speedy jet stream encircling the equator at an altitude never imaged before. Researchers have known about Jovian jet ...

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Tree-ring data reveal that periodic shifts in strong winds high above the Earth's surface have driven opposite climates in different parts of Europe for the past 700 years and likely much longer, ...

We can thank a ribbon of strong winds high above us for steering different kinds of weather our way. These strong winds make up the jet streams that circle the Earth. Earth has four primary ones: two ...

The polar night jet, the high-altitude winter wind that circles the Arctic, acts like a flywheel for the cold season in the Northern Hemisphere. As climate change erodes the temperature contrast that ...

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Airline meteorologists in South America were happy last week. They had found what they had been looking for—a “jet stream” of high-velocity wind in the sub-stratospheric sky. Apparently caused by ...

Ships steaming across the North Atlantic from west to east like to keep in the Gulf Stream, which increases their speed by a knot or so at no cost. Pan American’s Stratocruisers, flying from Tokyo to ...