Jet stream-charged downslope winds hammer Colorado's Front Range with more on the way; see highest recorded gusts

Check out Colorado's strongest wind gusts from Wednesday. And get ready for back-to-back First Alert Weather Days on Thursday ...

Westerly jet stream emerges as key driver of mid-latitude hydroclimatic extremes

In recent years, the global climate has become increasingly extreme, with intensifying alternations of droughts and ...

2025’s extreme weather had jet stream’s fingerprints all over it, from flash floods to hurricanes

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 ...
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2025’s extreme weather brought intense flash flooding, but no hurricane landfalls in the US – the jet stream is a big reason why

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) At the same time, every hurricane that formed, including the three powerful Category 5 ...