The jagged fragment has an area of roughly 31 sq miles (80 sq km) - just a fraction of the approximately 1,297 sq miles ...

Meteorologists often blame unusual weather events on the movements of a jet stream, not to be confused with the similarly active Gulf Stream. Learn the key differences between the two before the ...

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

The reason? Fierce jet stream winds supercharging its speed. The jet stream is like a river of west-to-east winds in the upper atmosphere. Airplanes use it like a highway. If flights are heading ...

The UK is bracing itself for an Atlantic jet stream of up to 100mph which could see strong winds batter large parts of the country. Jet streams are a narrow band of fast-flowing air in the Earth's ...

For both events, you can blame the jet stream – the fast-moving air currents that flow west to east around the globe. In October 2024, the polar jet had buckled, trapping a high-pressure ...

Commercial flights bound for Europe have been taking off late from the States but arriving on time or early, thanks to a more powerful jet stream, strengthened by the arctic air mass that settled ...

January featured unusual jet stream dynamics across North America, a highly amplified flow funnelling Arctic air into the central and southeastern United States, fuelling a historic winter storm and ...

An incredibly strong jet stream, bringing Storm Eowyn, was so powerful that the flight reached near-record speeds. Flying from Las Vegas to Heathrow in London, according to Flight Radar ...

The UK is bracing itself for an Atlantic jet stream of up to 100mph which could see strong winds batter large parts of the ...

It comes as the cold wave that's sweeping across America heads eastwards, strengthening the jet stream with winds of up to 250mph across the Atlantic. Meteorologists are examining different ...