While jet streams are air patterns, the Gulf Stream is an ocean pattern that also has an impact on weather.

“If the polar vortex is left alone ... surrounded by the Southern Ocean. In contrast, in the north Arctic sea ice is surrounded by alternating land and ocean: North America, the Atlantic ...

The world's largest iceberg is on a collision course with a remote British island, potentially putting penguins and seals in danger. The iceberg is spinning northwards from Antarctica towards South ...

When Virgin Atlantic Flight 10 took off from New York’s JFK International Airport this week, it was running 1 hour 13 minutes ...

Warmer-than-normal temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico did not cause the record-setting snowfall, but the conditions may have ...

It broke off from the Filchner Ice Shelf in Antarctica in 1986, but got stuck on the seafloor and then trapped in an ocean vortex or whirlpool. In December, it broke free and is now on its final ...

Scientists say a warming planet may have been responsible for a winter storm that dropped 10 inches of snow on Northwest ...

This winter, it seems as if temperatures have been fluctuating more significantly. Over the past year, it seems as if severe weather events have been occurring more frequently as well. Answers as ...

It calved, or broke off, from the Filchner Ice Shelf in Antarctica in 1986 but got stuck on the seafloor and then trapped in an ocean vortex. Finally, in December, it broke free and is now on its ...

The jet stream is like a river of west-to-east winds in the upper atmosphere. Airplanes use it like a highway.