At the same time, every hurricane that formed, including the three powerful Category 5 storms, steered clear of the U.S. mainland. Both scenarios were unusual – and they were la ...

Summer 2024 was officially the Northern Hemisphere’s hottest on record. In the United States, fierce heat waves seemed to hit somewhere almost every day. Overall, the global average temperature was ...

Tornadoes, winter storms and even hurricanes - chances are you've heard at least one of those phenomena mentioned in the same sentence with the jet stream. Here's a meteorology 101 rundown about what ...

Extreme and prolonged heat waves are becoming more frequent as the global climate warms. Unusually hot conditions across western North America, the Mediterranean and southern Asia this year have been ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The jet stream is a key atmospheric phenomenon that plays a crucial role in shaping day-to-day weather patterns. These fast-moving winds, typically located around 30,000 feet above ...

When the bubonic plague reached England in the summer of 1348—spread by fleas, lice, or infected humans, according to the latest theories—it reached a breeding ground for disease. Londoners’ immune ...

BOULDER, Colo. — There’s a river of air thousands of feet above our heads called the jet stream. And new research shows that the peak wind speeds in the jet stream are getting faster as the atmosphere ...

The Northern Hemisphere Jet Stream, which this week brought storms Dudley, Eunice and Franklin to the UK has been getting faster and moving northwards over the past century. New research shows that ...

Turbulent jet streams, regions where winds blow faster than in other places, churn east and west across Saturn. Scientists have been trying to understand for years the mechanism that drives these wavy ...

Turbulence generated by thunderstorms can drive the multiple east-west jet streams on the giant planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune — and explain a long-standing conundrum concerning the ...