The jet stream is a core of strong winds around 30 to 40,000 feet high up in the atmosphere that travels from west to east, meandering across the Atlantic with speeds of about 190 to 220 mph.
The jet stream that helped dump a foot of snow on the Gulf Coast is now accelerating over the Atlantic Ocean, helping fuel the strongest storm on record over Ireland with gusts over 100 mph and 50 ...
and then continues out over the Atlantic Ocean. ("The jet stream will bring such and such weather our way," the forecaster might say.) Well, in actuality, the jet stream is a complex phenomenon ...
It is set to strengthen the jet stream with winds of up to 250mph across the Atlantic, and according to BBC Weather, it is set to intensify next week. Its forecasters say: "The Atlantic jet stream ...
It also enlarges Rossby waves, which are meanders found in the jet stream. "So if you're trying to fly across the Atlantic, you've now got bigger waves in the jet stream, and you've also got more ...
The latest winter storm is expected to affect the central Plains Tuesday before moving east into the Mid-Atlantic Wednesday, according to forecasters.
It isn't the return of Concorde — instead, regular wide-body jets were flying through an accelerated jet stream. According to data from Flightradar24, Qatar Airways Flight 704 reached a top ground ...