Perhaps your image of the jet stream comes from maps broadcast during the weather portion of your local news. You know the kind: the ones where, if you live in the U.S., ...

Inside the Jet Stream A Five-Day View of the Jet Stream This is a five-day forecast generated by the Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC) on January 17, 2001.

The jet stream is a highway of fast moving air in the upper atmosphere. When an aircraft enters the jet stream, it can either slow down or speed up transportation. If planes are traveling west to ...

When there’s an active jet stream over a region primed for thunderstorms, it is like adding gasoline to a fire. It forces the upper portion of a thunderstorm between 20,000 and 40,000 feet to ...

An example of an omega-shaped jet stream. NOAA. The picture can be even more complex, since ocean-atmosphere interactions also need to be considered in this new jet stream scenario.

The map below shows Tuesday’s jet stream over North America. Winds in the light purple area ran about 230 mph. If you put a plane into that, ...

Jet stream could lurch off course by 2060 ... researchers used ancient ice cores from Greenland to map the trajectory of the jet stream over the past 1,250 years and employed climate models to ...

Thanks to the jet stream, westbound flights across the Atlantic take longer than eastbound ones. In the centuries before air travel, sailors dealt with a related time-sucking natural phenomenon ...

Airlines have long made use of the transatlantic jet stream to save time and fuel when flying from the US to Europe. “The airlines look at forecasted winds and they supply air traffic ...

The “normal” flow of the jet stream has to return before we have an opportunity for more traditional mid-June rainfall here in KELOLAND. That process will begin next week as a “split flow ...

The cooler weather in Britain at the beginning of July was due to the position of the jet stream, not changes in the Earth's orbit or tilt. There have been no significant recent changes to the ...