"There are weather systems ‘parked’ over some place on the planet." Experts reveal powerful culprit behind 2025's intense ...

Most summers, the polar jet stream retreats northward into Canada and weakens considerably, leaving the continental U.S. with ...

Aviation weather forecasting follows a "forecast funnel" methodology, beginning with analysis of large-scale atmospheric patterns from upper-air charts. Forecasters examine charts like the 300 ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The jet stream is a key atmospheric phenomenon that plays a crucial role in shaping day-to-day weather patterns. These fast-moving winds, typically located around 30,000 feet above ...

The summer of 2025 brought unprecedented flash flooding across the U.S., with the central and eastern regions hit particularly hard. These storms claimed hundreds of lives across Texas, Kentucky and ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — You’ve probably heard meteorologists talking about the jet stream in the fall and winter months as it can be used as a tool to forecast temperature changes and even the type of ...

Tropical Storm Debby has been meandering over the same area for days, but is expected to take a quick path northward on Friday through the Northeast. What is causing this dramatic jump in Debby's ...

Even though we are well into December and almost entering the new year, it hasn't quite felt like the winter season.

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — You probably are not a fan of the roller coaster temperatures over the past few weeks and might equate it being “January in Michigan” but there is actually a scientific name ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) At the same time, every hurricane that formed, including the three powerful Category 5 ...

A University of Dayton researcher argues the extreme weather of 2025, from flash floods to hurricanes, had the jet stream's fingerprints all over it.