Much of the nation east of the Rocky Mountains is hunkered down for what could be the worst winter storm of the season.

As the UK battens down for Storm Chandra experts look across the Atlantic to an Arctic blast in the United States for answers ...

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 ...

What is sudden stratospheric warming? Sudden Stratospheric Warming (SSW) events occur during the winter months and can lead to Arctic outbreaks across the US. They have to do with the polar vortex and ...

Astronomers aimed the Very Large Telescope in Chile at a nearby exoplanet and discovered jet stream winds blowing nearly 80 times faster than any seen here on Earth, and the fastest of their kind ever ...

Summer storms running over Colorado are bringing rain, hail, lightning and winds, a common offering from the skies at this time of year. In some places it means tornado warnings. In Boulder, the winds ...

In South America, southern Africa, Australia and Oceania, summer weather is heavily influenced by the Southern Hemisphere’s Eddy-Driven Jet (EDJ), a wind belt that flows between 1.3–1.5 kilometres ...

The frigid stream of air that plunged down into the Central U.S. this week is breaking cold records from South Dakota to Texas, with temperatures in the single digits setting records in many locations ...

We have launched a First Alert Weather Day for both Thursday and Friday in anticipation of strong winds and very low humidity ...

A duo of battling "giants" goaded by 200mph jet stream winds will plunge Britain into a week of storm hell. In the wake of ...