The polar vortex is Earth's frozen guardian—but that guardian is starting to fail. This video dives into the science behind ...

So with a jet stream far to the north, Florida typically sees above normal temperatures during a La Niña winter. However, since La Niña conditions are expected to be weak, if it develops, other ...

Climate change is making heat waves like the one that lingered over much of the U.S. this week more frequent and intense. The ...

In his final novel "Back to Blood," Tom Wolfe described the Florida sun as “an unnatural brilliance… [a] hellish heat lamp, ...

The reportedly intensifying Somali Jet-a low-level, cross-equatorial jet stream that influences the Indian summer monsoon-broke the internet on Tuesday, with weather influencers posting maps and ...

These air masses are divided by the jet stream high up in the atmosphere and by frontal boundaries at the surface. With more variation between adjoining air masses, more frequent and sometimes ...

The equatorial jet stream also contains titanium, a metal previously thought to be absent from WASP-121b's atmosphere but found to have been hiding in the planet's lower atmospheric layers.

In a nutshell. Scientists have mapped the three-dimensional structure of an exoplanet’s atmosphere for the first time, discovering three distinct layers of wind patterns on WASP-121b, including a ...

The jet stream intensifies each winter as arctic winds meet equatorial warmth. phillips – stock.adobe.com The jet stream had the reverse effect on westbound flights, according to the report.

Reaching up to a whopping 20,505 miles per hour—or more than 5 miles per second—these winds create the fastest jet stream around a ... WASP-127b’s equatorial winds are about 1,000 ...

GÖTTINGEN, Germany — Five hundred light-years from Earth, a distant exoplanet experiences weather patterns that make Earth’s most violent hurricanes look like gentle breezes. On WASP-127b, supersonic ...

The Earth's atmosphere also has smaller, less consistent jet streams, such as the equatorial jet stream and the African easterly jet stream.