Central Texas, smashing record-high temperatures on Friday. Rain chances have been slim-to-none, with a severe drought ...

Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Simultaneous heatwaves and flooding in swaths of the US, Europe and Asia are being fuelled by a specific jet ...

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

A new formula for identifying extreme weather patterns ranging from hurricanes to heatwaves has been devised by scientists. It has long been known that these can be driven by blockages in air currents ...

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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 ...

In a new study, scientists show how specific wave patterns in the jet stream strongly increase the chance of co-occurring heatwaves in major food producing regions of Northern America, Western Europe ...

In the meantime, his larger message stayed steady: the pattern is shifting hard, and winter is about to behave differently – flooding risk in the Northwest, snow and wind for the northern tier, and a ...

It certainly has been a wild — and deadly — few weeks for weather. Since the first and 23rd of May, 340 tornadoes have spun up across the United States, mostly in a swath of territory stretching from ...

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 ...

WITH the woeful prospect of yet more heavy rains, some people are worried that it may be caused by man-made climate change. However it is our jet stream, not carbon dioxide, that causes our weather ...