First, instead of moving storms quickly eastward, the sluggish jet stream stalled storm systems in place, causing prolonged ...

In January 2025, New Orleans awoke to the surreal sight of snow blanketing Bourbon Street and the French Quarter for the ...

In the United States, our weather patterns usually travel from the west to the east. Sometimes, we can see variations in that a system will move in from the northwest or southwest, but Missourians ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (Reuters) - In Earth's upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 275 miles (442 km) per hour, but they are not the strongest in ...

The frigid stream of air that plunged down into the Central U.S. this week is breaking cold records from South Dakota to Texas, with temperatures in the single digits setting records in many locations ...

(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 ...

At the same time, every hurricane that formed, including the three powerful Category 5 storms, steered clear of the U.S. mainland. Both scenarios were unusual – and they were largely directed by the ...