BOULDER, Colo. — There’s a river of air thousands of feet above our heads called the jet stream. And new research shows that the peak wind speeds in the jet stream are getting faster as the atmosphere ...
Near record-breaking wind over the mid-Atlantic region pushed east-bound commercial planes to supersonic speeds this weekend. One passenger plane, a Virgin Atlantic flight traveling from Washington to ...
A new study in Nature Climate Change takes one of the first deep dives into how climate change will affect the fastest jet streams—the powerful, narrow winds in the upper atmosphere that steer much of ...