When Virgin Atlantic Flight 10 took off from New York’s JFK International Airport this week, it was running 1 hour 13 minutes late. But within 23 minutes of takeoff, it was careening over the Atlantic ...
Savior of many a cramped pair of legs, the jet stream is well known for lopping roughly an hour off long haul west-to-east flights. But it's working especially hard for travelers in economy class ...
The colder it gets, the faster they fly. Commercial flights bound for Europe have been taking off late from the States but arriving on time or early, thanks to a more powerful jet stream, strengthened ...
The jet stream buffered the US in hurricane season The jet stream also played a role in the 2025 hurricane season. Given its west-to-east wind direction, the southward dip of the jet stream—along with ...
(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 ...