La Niña, when tropical waters in the eastern Pacific become cooler than normal, is ending and the opposite event, El Niño, is set for later this year.

When you flip the thermostat down on a sweltering afternoon, you might not think about what's happening five or six miles above your head. Yet the behavior of high-altitude winds called jet streams is ...

Scientists are using studies and computer models to draw connections between recent extreme weather and climate change. The research organization ClimaMeter said that the snowstorm that hit over the ...

In South America, southern Africa, Australia and Oceania, summer weather is heavily influenced by the Southern Hemisphere’s Eddy-Driven Jet (EDJ), a wind belt that flows between 1.3–1.5 kilometres ...

Dartmouth researchers used machine learning and long-term climate records to construct a timeline of jet-stream variability since 1901. Nearly all prior studies of the jet stream focus on the period ...

(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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the same time, every hurricane that formed, including the three powerful Category 5 storms, steered clear of the U.S. mainland.

The Northeast has seen wild temperature swings — from record 80s one day to snow showers the next. Scientists say weather patterns like cold fronts and climate factors help explain it.