If you've ever watched a jet fighter taking off with its afterburners firing, you may have noticed an unusual phenomenon — "shock diamonds." We'll cover why shock diamonds happen in more detail later, ...

The jet stream also played a role in the 2025 hurricane season. Given its west-to-east wind direction, the southward dip of the jet stream—along with a weak high pressure system over the ...

Something has been off about the sky lately, and meteorologists are finally putting numbers to the feeling. Across the past several months, forecast models have picked up on a significant ...

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 ...

A new study challenges the idea that climate change is behind the erratic wintertime behavior of the polar jet stream, the massive current of Arctic air that regulates weather for much of the Northern ...

Meteorologist Justin Rudicel explains how the jet stream forms, why it shifts throughout the year and how it influences everything from severe storms to summer heat in Oklahoma. The jet stream is one ...