How to Use jet stream in a Sentence

jet stream

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  • El Niño tends to shift the jet stream south over the US.
    — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 19 Oct. 2023
  • When the jet stream swings far to the north, air piles up and sinks.
    — William Gallus, CBS News, 26 June 2023
  • The ranges are the high pressure ridge in the mid-Atlantic and the trough of low pressure pushed by the jet stream.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2023
  • But just how fast was the jet stream blowing to push these planes up past the 800 mph mark?
    — Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik, Quartz, 21 Feb. 2024
  • This jet stream has been positioned in such a way for the last 3 weeks.
    — Max Golembo, ABC News, 11 Jan. 2023
  • This ties into some of our work on 'resonance’ of the jet stream.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2023
  • The authors linked this to changes in the jet stream -- a fast west-to-east air current in the northern hemisphere.
    — Reuters, CNN, 21 July 2022
  • So, the jet stream was slow and Harvey stalled, dropping up to 60 inches of rain.
    — USA Today, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The storm track is a wind current, like the jet stream, that carries the river of moisture from west to east.
    — Robin Meadows, Scientific American, 11 Jan. 2023
  • This includes the jet stream, strong winds in the upper atmosphere that blow from west to east over the U.S.
    — Jack Lee, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The jet stream is located over the equator, or center, of the planet.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Tropical Tidbits The reason for all the wild and wet weather is the jet stream.
    — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Tammy will be steered northeast ahead of a trough, or dip in the jet stream filled with cool air and low pressure.
    — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
  • And with a wavier than normal jet stream, extremes of all kinds go up and down and around the planet, Francis said.
    — Time, 5 Jan. 2023
  • That’s when the jet stream pattern may flip — thwarting the stormy onslaught in the West and allowing cold air to return to the East.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2023
  • The storms hitting California are being caused by a shift in the jet stream.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The reason for the cold is a major dip in the jet stream, that’s allowing for super cold air to dive very far south.
    — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 19 Dec. 2022
  • These shifts are brought about by changes to conditions in the atmosphere, including the path of the jet stream.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 15 July 2023
  • The jet stream’s wavy pattern creates areas of high and low pressure.
    — NBC News, 16 July 2023
  • Members of the study team are working on figuring out what’s causing these changes to the jet stream.
    — WIRED, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Meanwhile, in the upper atmosphere, a dip in the jet stream is swinging through from the Ohio Valley.
    — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Heat domes bring hot, sinking air and act as a force field that diverts the jet stream north into Canada.
    — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 25 July 2022
  • The jet stream pattern is shifting and that will leave North Texas in a mainly dry and warm weather pattern.
    — Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2022
  • In between the dips of the jet stream, relatively stable bubbles of hot air are able to bake the landscape.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 28 June 2022
  • The jet stream is the fast-moving river of air high in the atmosphere that ushers weather systems across the globe.
    — Angela Fritz, CNN, 11 July 2023
  • The subtropical jet stream is formed when warm air from the equator meets the cool air from the polar regions and flows from west to east.
    — Anusha Krishnan, Quartz, 30 May 2022
  • El Niño causes the Pacific jet stream to move south and spread further east.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2023
  • El Niño occurs because the polar jet stream shifts north and limits cold air coming from the north.
    — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 19 July 2023
  • The greater meandering of the jet stream led to both the prolonged rain in Pakistan and an extreme heat wave in Russia that year.
    — Damian Carrington, WIRED, 3 Sep. 2022
  • The heat dome will deflect the jet stream into Canada, allowing hot weather to build in to its south.
    — Matthew Cappucci, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2022

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