Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Forecast jet stream winds for next week. The colors show wind speed, with green, yellow and orange indicating the strongest winds.

As we head into a more active weather pattern over the next week or so, I wanted to look up at the top of the atmosphere. The jet stream is about six miles up and acts as the major driver for our ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever heard a meteorologist mention the jet stream and thought, “Okay… but what does that actually mean?” You’re not alone. It’s one of the most important drivers of weather across the United ...

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, which appears to resemble the 24th ...

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 ...