jet stream

The final figure shows the jet stream pattern at high levels, during the phase of most intense sleet on Thursday morning.

The two high pressure zones have pinned the jet stream in place, keeping the Great Plains in the bull’s eye.

Scientists say warming in the Arctic, where temperatures are rising faster than anywhere else on the planet, may be weakening the jet stream that typically keeps cold air deep in the northern hemisphere.

Strong jet stream winds captured some of the system’s upper-level cirrus, or wispy ice clouds at high altitudes, and carried them east across the Blue Ridge and toward the Mid-Atlantic.

As the jet stream runs into that ridge, explains Lopez Lang, it directs waves of energy upwards towards the stratosphere.

The family held together in the gypsy jet stream that is military life.

We know that Oklahoma will have tornadoes when the cold jet stream meets the warm gulf air.

“The jet stream always has something to say about where hurricanes go when they leave the tropics,” she says.

The jet stream was higher this time than on that other journey now two months past.