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The intriguing phenomenon helping planes slingshot across the Atlantic at 800 mph
The jet stream is like a river of west-to-east winds in the upper atmosphere. Airplanes use it like a highway.
Intense jet stream has planes moving faster than the speed of sound on flights bound for Europe
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 ...
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Wicked Atlantic Jet Stream Fuels Historic Storm | Berardelli Bonus
The jet stream that helped dump a foot of snow on the Gulf Coast is now accelerating over the Atlantic Ocean, helping fuel the strongest storm on record over Ireland with gusts over 100 mph and 50 ...
It’s about to be very stormy across the U.S. Why and where it will be worst.
Significant ice and snow will fall across northern states on Wednesday, Thursday and over the weekend as a busy weather ...
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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 ... the East Coast of the U.S., and flows across the Atlantic, all the way to the Norwegian Sea.
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Britain facing MORE storm and snow fears as maps reveal where 'very powerful' 250mph Jet Stream will bring strong winds and torrential downpours later this week
The Jet Stream will develop above the North Atlantic this week, with the Met Office expecting 'perhaps the strongest winds of the winter so far' by Friday. Its forecast said: 'The change to much ...
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Intense jet stream has planes moving faster than the speed of sound on flights bound for Europe
Pilots have been exploiting the augmented jet stream to coast across the Atlantic Ocean at speeds of up to 840 mph — which is faster than the speed of sound, the outlet reported. The planes didn ...