COLUMBIA, S.C. — The jet stream is a narrow current of high-altitude air, and it doesn't just affect the weather. In the same direction as the jet stream, an airplane can gain extra speed. For example ...

Picture this: you're checking tomorrow's weather for the tenth time this week, and each time the forecast has shifted. What ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Normally when we talk about the jet stream, we talk about the impact that it will have on our temperatures. But what if I were to tell you that the jet stream can also have a ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. Thousands of feet above the Earth's surface, very strong winds called the "jet stream" move weather systems ...

The high-speed winds of jet streams, found near the top of the troposphere, play a major role in guiding weather systems. Many factors, including Earth's rotation and the Sun's uneven heating of Earth ...

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 ...

A University of Dayton researcher argues the extreme weather of 2025, from flash floods to hurricanes, had the jet stream's ...

A novel unified hydrodynamic model proposes a single mechanism to explain the contrasting equatorial jet stream directions on gas giants (eastward on Jupiter/Saturn) and ice giants (westward on Uranus ...