The Deep South of the United States was hit with a rare snowstorm, the result of a collision of air pressure systems moved by ...
Scientists are scrambling to understand how climate change may be interfering with the winds that carry our weather, with ...
How the Polar Vortex Can Bring Arctic Blasts to the U.S. Vast weather patterns can carry blasts of frigid air far from the ...
Each hemisphere has two main jet streams ... That tends to push the jet stream north, leading to drier conditions along the Gulf Coast and warmer winters.
A mass of air called the polar vortex has escaped the Arctic and plunged southward. Some scientists see the fingerprints of ...
At least two flights briefly traveled faster than the speed of sound as the jet stream sped up, but there would not have been ...
A strong polar vortex in the stratosphere has brought subzero temperatures to the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and deep into the South.
As the Arctic rapidly warms, the temperature difference between the polar region and lower latitudes decreases, which weakens ...
The first couple of criteria have to do with the big picture of how the jet stream lines up across the Northern Hemisphere. The significant Florida snowstorms of 1895, 1899, 1955, 1958, 1973, and 1989 ...