A strong polar vortex in the stratosphere has brought subzero temperatures to the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and deep into the South.

Scientists are scrambling to understand how climate change may be interfering with the winds that carry our weather, with ...

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 ...

In Earth's upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 275 miles (442 km) per hour, but they are not the strongest in our solar system. The ...

The jet stream is indicated by the light blue line ... More recently, we have shown that for large areas of the U.S., Europe and Northeast Asia, while the number of these severe cold events ...

The supersonic jet-stream winds circling WASP-127b at its equator are the fastest of their kind on any known planet. "There is an extremely fast circumplanetary jet wind found on the planet.