In summer, the polar jet stream typically shifts northward, leading to warmer weather in regions south of it. By July and August, the jet stream is often located near or north of the United States.

Understanding how the jet stream behaved in the past is crucial for figuring out how it might be changing as the Earth heats up.

A multi-century climate record suggests that current Atlantic jet-stream variations are not the cause of an increase in extreme weather events. Read the paper: Past hydroclimate extremes in Europe ...

Last week's marathon winter storm was the result of a big dip in the jet stream. Here's why, and how we use the location of the jet stream to forecast.

As we head into a more active weather pattern over the next week or so, I wanted to look up at the top of the atmosphere. The jet stream is about six miles up and acts as the major driver for our ...

If we don’t get a clear picture of how the jet stream is changing, and what that means for our weather, we could be dramatically underestimating the extreme events coming our way.

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) - The dictionary defines the jet stream as strong, generally westerly winds concentrated in a relatively narrow and shallow stream in the upper troposphere of the Earth. Meh. A ...

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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’ ...