The daily weather we experience is largely shaped by atmospheric conditions nearly 30,000 feet above us, where a key factor is the weather phenomenon known as the jet stream. Think of a jet stream ...

In this weather map compiled by the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center, a fluctuating jet stream allowed the movement of a cold front across Texas on Nov. 18, 2024.

Bengaluru | The reportedly intensifying Somali Jet—a low-level, cross-equatorial jet stream that influences the Indian summer monsoon—broke the internet on Tuesday, with weather influencers ...

This image highlights several of the features around Jupiter’s equatorial zone that, between one rotation of the planet (10 hours), are very clearly disturbed by the motion of the jet stream.

On average, during an El Nino winter, the northern U.S. sees warmer than average temperatures, as the polar jet stream stays north and keeps the cold air in Canada.

The jet stream, which sits over the planet’s equator, spans more than 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) wide and moves at 320 miles per hour (515 kilometers per hour), or twice the rate seen with ...

Meteorologists attribute the latest batch of record-shattering weather extremes to a stuck jet stream and the effects of a La Nina weather pattern from cooling waters in the equatorial Pacific.