High above our heads, around 5 to 7 miles above the Earth’s surface, a powerful ribbon of air races from west to east. This is the jet stream; a fast-flowing current of air that plays a crucial role ...

(The Conversation) – 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 ...

An email from April asks about the importance of jet streams in our weather. The jet stream is a river of strong wind the strength that is determined by differences in temperature. Right away that ...