Latest Jet stream Stories

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online In pushing for his green agenda, President Barack Obama has repeatedly cited last year’s massive drought, which cost the US $35 billion, as evidence of climate change. However, a new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) found that a bizarre confluence of natural variations was responsible for the precipitous drop in rainfall levels across the United States last summer. "This is one of those events...

Alan McStravick for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online “… And as a reminder, the captain recommends that you keep your seatbelt fastened while seated throughout the flight.” The above was once regarded as overly cautious advice. However, new research from the University of Reading indicates that keeping your seatbelt fastened may become a strict and necessary requirement for those crossing the Atlantic in the coming decades. Their analysis of climate change has presented models...

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- EarthRisk Technologies, the San Diego based weather analytics company, confirmed today that the Midwest/East U.S. experienced the most extreme and persistent heat on record since 1948 in June and July 2012. HeatRisk, the company's web-based platform that utilizes historical data to analyze the risk for extreme warm weather events up to 40 days in advance, verified several key patterns conspired to drive the record-breaking temperatures....

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com NASA's Cassini spacecraft has revealed just how Saturn's jet streams work, according to a new study published in the journal Icarus. Scientists have been trying to understand the mechanism that drives Saturn's jet streams, which blow faster in other places, and churn east and west across the planet. The jet streams in Saturn's atmosphere slice across the face of the planet and are visible to the human eye, and also visible at altitudes detectable by...

Discoveries could help predict weather in the future This past March was the second warmest winter month ever recorded in the Midwest, with temperatures 15 degrees above average. The only other winter month that was warmer was December of 1889, during which temperatures were 18 degrees above average. Now, MU researchers may have discovered why the weather patterns during these two winter months, separated by 123 years, were so similar. The answer could help scientists develop more accurate...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, March 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- To contradict Shakespeare, 2012 was not the winter of discontent -- it may go down as the year without a winter at all in many parts of the country, and you can blame -- or praise -- the jet stream, says a Texas A&M University climate expert. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120314/DC70697LOGO) John Nielsen-Gammon, professor atmospheric sciences who also serves as state climatologist, says upper level...

New images from Cassini are giving scientists and amateur astronomers new insight into the jet streams of Jupiter. The team pieced together images taken from Cassini in 2000 to create a video, animating the wave that is disturbing Jupiter’s jet waves. These findings are part of an in-depth study that was published in the April 2012 issue of Icarus. Amy Simon-Miller is leading the research. “This is the first time anyone has actually seen direct wave motion in one of Jupiter’s jet...

New movies of Jupiter are the first to catch an invisible wave shaking up one of the giant planet's jet streams, an interaction that also takes place in Earth's atmosphere and influences the weather. The movies, made from images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft when it flew by Jupiter in 2000, are part of an in-depth study conducted by a team of scientists and amateur astronomers led by Amy Simon-Miller at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and published in the April 2012...

High in the sky, 60 to 65 miles above Earth's surface, winds rush through a little understood region of Earth's atmosphere at speeds of 200 to 300 miles per hour. Lower than a typical satellite's orbit, higher than where most planes fly, this upper atmosphere jet stream makes a perfect target for a particular kind of scientific experiment: the sounding rocket. Some 35 to 40 feet long, sounding rockets shoot up into the sky for short journeys of eight to ten minutes, allowing scientists to...

Despite a warmer than normal winter, near-normal conditions expected OAKVILLE, ON, March 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - The Weather Network has just released its outlook for the months of March, April and May. Following an exceptionally warm and generally dry winter, Canadians can expect a normal and gradual warm-up this spring. The unusually warm winter can be attributed to several factors, one of which is the jet stream, which stayed further north than usual during the winter...