Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A charged-up jet stream will generate a series of storms for British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest this week. (Baron/Lynx ) ...

Tens of millions of people are in the path of a major winter storm. Federal cuts threaten efforts to understand the causes of such weather.

A chilling polar vortex is set to bring snow and ice to the South and East this week. We show where.

First, we have a jet stream pattern that favors warmer weather, with a high pressure ridge sitting right on top of us. As the jet stream volatility remains west and north of us, we are typically ...

The jet stream, or any wind, is the result of differences in surface temperature. In simple terms, warm air rises, creating low pressure, and cold air sinks, creating high pressure. Wind is the ...

The jet stream also played a role in the 2025 hurricane season. Given its west-to-east wind direction, the southward dip of the jet stream—along with a weak high pressure system over the ...

(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 ...