Some planes are hitting top speeds over over 750 miles per hour. Some commercial flights have been getting to their destinations faster than normal over the past few days – all thanks to an extra push ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Aircraft traveling from North America to Europe last week, neared the speed of sound over ground at times. What made these flights truly exceptional, was the powerful influence of ...

Savior of many a cramped pair of legs, the jet stream is well known for lopping roughly an hour off long haul west-to-east flights. But it's working especially hard for travelers in economy class ...

The jet stream, the narrow band of westerly winds circling the northern hemisphere, is stagnating, giving rise to severe heat across much of the globe, and climate change may be making it worse, a new ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Heading into the cooler months, we can certainly see some cold snaps make their way into the area. But what's going on in the atmosphere that causes these cooler-than-average ...

Summer 2024 was officially the Northern Hemisphere’s hottest on record. In the United States, fierce heat waves seemed to hit somewhere almost every day. Overall, the global average temperature was ...

WASHINGTON -- The jet stream — America's stormy weather maker — is creeping northward and weakening, new research shows. That potentially means less rain in the already dry South and Southwest and ...

In short, zonal flow brings quick hits. Expect brief rain, quick clearing, and limited cold. Meridional flow, on the other ...