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You can't see it above you, but the jet stream's strong winds can have a big influence on the weather you see, and even your ...
Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...
A slow spring storm is headed for California this weekend, but it’s missing one key ingredient that typically drives the state’s most intense weather events: the jet stream. Instead, this weekend’s ...
By combining several telescope dishes, the three-dimensional structure of an exoplanet's atmosphere could be mapped for the ...
As we head into a more active weather pattern over the next week or so, I wanted to look up at the top of the atmosphere. The jet stream is about six miles up and acts as the major driver for our ...
Atmospheric rivers are more common during the winter months, but officials are warning people not to let their guard down.
The weather radar is something many of us turn to when severe weather starts rolling in. We watch the colors — light colors ...
Details are uncertain, but we watching early next week for a potentially more active period of severe storms in the Plains ...
Extratropical cyclones (or low-pressure systems) traveling along the Kuroshio in East Asia most frequently occur in spring, ...
Supersonic winds carry elements across its atmosphere, forming powerful jet streams. Using the Very Large Telescope, researc... Recent observations by an amateur astronomer reveal that Jupiter’s ...