Across the Northern Hemisphere, familiar seasons are starting to feel unfamiliar. Heat waves linger, cold snaps arrive out of ...
A warming Arctic can stretch the polar vortex, a high-altitude air ribbon, one says. The “wobble” can disrupt the jet stream, ...
Tens of millions of people are in the path of a major winter storm. Federal cuts threaten efforts to understand the causes of ...
This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Yes, climate change can supercharge a winter storm. Here’s how ...
There's a confounding dilemma for many folks trying to make sense of winter weather in the context of climate change.
A blast of winter cold doesn’t contradict climate change — it often reflects how a warming planet is making weather more ...
Climate deniers are quick to say ‘I told you so’ when the mercury drops. But a warmer planet impacts weather in ways that can seem counterintuitive. Record cold temperatures are once again expected to ...
To understand what Americans are experiencing with this winter blast, we need to look more than 20 miles above the surface of ...
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 ...
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 ...
(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 ...