According to research by a University of Arizona-led team, an increase in fluctuations in the North Atlantic jet stream since the 1960s coincide with more extreme weather events in Europe such as heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and flooding. Researchers ...

(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 Texas, Kentucky and several other states and caused ...

Jet streams are often referred to as the "motor" of global weather: High-altitude wind currents steer areas of high and low pressure, playing a crucial role in shaping our weather. However, how these atmospheric flows are affected by climate change remains ...

Michigan is forecast to see a string of warm and dry days to start June, thanks to a weather pattern known as the omega block. The omega block is a weather term that describes the shape of the jet stream in the northern hemisphere: a curved upside-down "U" with two outward facing lines,