The Earth’s jet streams play a fundamental role in the speed and direction of weather systems across the world. This means that they are crucial for understanding extreme weather events and how they ...

Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Fires, floods, heatwaves and droughts. The deadly weather that has unfolded in recent weeks has left climate ...

Picture this: you're checking tomorrow's weather for the tenth time this week, and each time the forecast has shifted. What ...

A five-storm cluster flung towards Britain on a hurtling jet stream threatens another imminent storm nightmare. As swathes of the country reel from Storm Bram, the next assault is just hours away, ...

Global heating could force the North Atlantic jet stream to break from its normal route within the next four decades, a new study suggests, bringing extreme weather across Europe and the US with ...

Over the past decade or so, a scientific debate has emerged around whether rapid Arctic warming could be affecting extreme weather in the mid-latitudes. Much of this work focuses on the jet stream – ...

Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The deadly heatwaves that have fuelled blazes and caused transport disruptions in Europe, the US and China this ...

When prolonged periods of severe weather strike, two things often get the blame these days: climate change and the jet stream. Many have expressed concerns that the rapidly melting Arctic is now ...

One of the instruments clusters hangs beneath a wing on the FAAM plane A major international effort is under way to research one of the greatest unknowns in weather forecasting - the influence of the ...

During her summer travels to her native Belgium, University of Arizona professor Valerie Trouet noticed something that turned casual curiosity into a major scientific discovery. When the sun hid ...