Jet Stream vs. Gulf Stream: What’s the Difference?
While jet streams are air patterns, the Gulf Stream is an ocean pattern that also has an impact on weather.
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How the Polar Vortex Can Bring Arctic Blasts to the U.S.
How the Polar Vortex Can Bring Arctic Blasts to the U.S. Vast weather patterns can carry blasts of frigid air far from the ...
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What is a jet stream? How does this weather phenomenon shape so much of Texas weather?
Think of a jet stream as a river of fast-moving air ... generally blow from west to east in both the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere. Jet streams can also weaken, shift or reform ...
Why Is It So Cold in the South If the Planet Is Warming? Here’s What We Know.
A mass of air called the polar vortex has escaped the Arctic and plunged southward. Some scientists see the fingerprints of ...