In the United States, our weather patterns usually travel from the west to the east. Sometimes, we can see variations in that a system will move in from the northwest or southwest, but Missourians ...
Finally, the wavy jet stream became locked in place by persistent high-pressure systems, anchoring storm tracks over the same regions. This led to repeated episodes of heavy rainfall and catastrophic ...
(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 ...
The sky may seem like a huge open playground for airplanes to fly without speed limits in any direction they wish. In reality, planes adhere to certain rules and follow fixed flight paths, much like ...
A novel unified hydrodynamic model proposes a single mechanism to explain the contrasting equatorial jet stream directions on gas giants (eastward on Jupiter/Saturn) and ice giants (westward on Uranus ...
An email from Jerry asks why there is a jet stream and why is it called "jet stream." If we think of the air flowing around the planet as doing so in streams like rivers it may then be a little easier ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Shuang-Ye Wu, University of Dayton (THE CONVERSATION) The summer of 2025 brought ...