“You can think of convergence as walking between two big buildings in the city, and the winds being squeezed and funneled in between,” Berardelli explained. Jet streams are the strongest ...

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

Natural forces also play a role, and powerful jet streams can sometimes help flights move much quicker than expected. On ...

There has been a new named storm every month since October - why is the UK experiencing so many intense weather events back ...

How do warming arctic temperatures and a wavier jet stream combine to create snowfall across South Carolina? It's complicated ...

Cold air from the arctic sometimes dips southward across the American plains. What to know about the polar vortex.

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

In a detailed forecast for the coming week, the Met Office explained: "The change to much more unsettled conditions will ...

This is linked to the north polar jet stream. Its tailwinds are why flying from the US to Europe is faster than flying from Europe to the US. Gratton explained how the warming atmosphere speeds up ...

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 ...

South Florida could see warmer temperatures Saturday, thanks to the same jet stream that elevated the wind flow which has fueled the fires in Southern California. This upper-level low on the West ...