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
  • Swift jet streams sculpt and stretch the clouds into long bands.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 22 June 2024
  • It’s going to be up to the jet stream to determine the path of 98L.
    — Kimberly Miller, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • That's also when the jet stream is strongest over the U.S.
    — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • The two high pressure zones have pinned the jet stream in place, keeping the Great Plains in the bull’s eye.
    — Philip Kiefer, Popular Science, 24 Feb. 2021
  • This jet stream has been positioned in such a way for the last 3 weeks.
    — Max Golembo, ABC News, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Notice that the smoke originates across the west and then gets pulled to the east due to the jet stream aloft.
    — Claire Bugos, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Sep. 2020
  • When a straight-line jet stream blows in from the Pacific Ocean.
    — Vivian Manning-Schaffel, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2024
  • The jet stream that steers daily weather shifts a bit in the winter.
    — Seth Borenstein, Star Tribune, 10 Sep. 2020
  • When the difference is large, the jet stream sticks to a fairly straight path.
    — Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Since about the year 2000, there’s been a pause in the shifting of the jet stream and the other changes caused by the declining ozone.
    — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 26 Mar. 2020
  • At the same time, a dip in the jet stream will scoop up the area of low pressure and carry it northeast.
    — Kimberly Miller, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2020
  • The current heat dome is taking shape in part because of the jet stream.
    — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 18 June 2024
  • Then, when the jet stream buckles over the central US, that dense, cold air plows south.
    — Philip Kiefer, Popular Science, 24 Feb. 2021
  • This ties into some of our work on 'resonance’ of the jet stream.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2023
  • But the breakdown of the vortex could change the shape of the jet stream below and end the pattern of mild weather.
    — Popular Science, 11 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • The jet stream is the river of air up in the atmosphere that steers weather around.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2021
  • So, the jet stream was slow and Harvey stalled, dropping up to 60 inches of rain.
    — USA Today, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The map above shows some of the upper level jet stream features for this storm.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • For most of the winter, says Ventrice, the jet stream has stayed to the north of the continental US.
    — Popular Science, 11 Jan. 2021
  • The storm, and a wall of arctic air, is expected to ride the jet stream across most of the nation over the next few days.
    — USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Blame the warmer-than-normal weather on the polar jet stream.
    — Joe Taschler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2019
  • That keeps the jet stream further north and a ridge of high pressure over the desert southwest, bringing warmer and drier weather than usual.
    — Andrew Ford, The Arizona Republic, 17 Oct. 2024
  • This outbreak follows severe weather earlier this week in Texas, and is the result of a deep dip, or trough, in the jet stream that is pulling moisture from the Gulf of Mexico northward.
    — Andrew Freedman, Axios, 28 Dec. 2024

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