Dartmouth researchers used machine learning and long-term climate records to construct a timeline of jet-stream variability since 1901. Nearly all prior studies of the jet stream focus on the period ...
A warming Arctic can stretch the polar vortex, a high-altitude air ribbon, one says. The “wobble” can disrupt the jet stream, causing extreme cold in the East.
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 ...
Over the past decade, southern Australia has suffered numerous extreme weather and climate events, such as record-breaking heatwaves, bushfires, two major droughts and even flash flooding. While ...
An Arctic air mass has plunged across North America and parts of Europe, driving temperatures far below freezing and straining power grids, transport systems, and emergency services. The shock of this ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the same time, every hurricane that formed, including the three powerful Category 5 storms, steered clear of the U.S. mainland.
(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 ...
There's a confounding dilemma for many folks trying to make sense of winter weather in the context of climate change.