What is the jet stream and how does it affect the weather?

What is the jet stream, where is it located and how does it affect our weather? Wet or dry summers are all to do with the positioning of the jet stream. In this video, we look in detail at the Polar Front Jet, which strongly influences the weather over the UK and Europe.
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3:00 the stronger the temperature gradient, the stronger the jet; jet is stronger in the winter than in the summer as the poles cool, increasing temperature contrast 3:15 jet further from pole winter, closer to pole in summer 3:50 wet summers in the UK if jet stream remains to the south of the UK

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In Grand Forks BC @ 2013/4 looked up miles above a very super high cirrus clouds, saw this snail trail of clouds barreling along. Remember I got by binoculars out at the time. Must have been miles wild, like clouds, I could see right down the valley too because it runs oddly east to west. Neat sight. It is extremely hot in GF fyi. Nothing rushed through it, it was a constant flow.

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great video but what about subtropical jets

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Can you do a piece on the Magnetosphere and how it holds our Jet streams in place?.

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I still feel like I can't understand 😔

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How is the exact path/shape and position of the jet stream calculated on a day to day basis? Just from pressure measurements and satellite imagery?

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[@jonathanwarren5294]

A very good audio visual tool, explaining how the whole system works. The voiceover lets it down. Badly read, flat delivery. Better inflexion and more enthusiasm needed. I would also recommend that the soundtrack be removed; it's just distracting from the delivery as a whole. We need more clips on these topics, with the improvements suggested above.

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[@greyalien9074]

Does the movement of the magnetic field effect the jet stream ? It seams like as the pole moves the proton induction is creating a barrier and pushing the jet stream .

[@royakonopka7072]

climbing both air columns to the same height would make a lower air pressure for the warm column and a higher one for the cold air column...would it not?

[@KanijahBrick]

that's what I thought :/

[@creatureofhabit7049]

Both columns, being of different densities, have different(higher for cold one) rates of decrease in pressure as we go up. At the surface cold one has a higher pressure than hot one but as we start to climb the cold column's pressure decreases faster than the hot one and a time will come when cold column's pressure becomes less than that of hot one. Also you can see it this way - both columns have the same pressure at tropopause but at different heights! Lets say cold one has tropopause at height 8 km and hot one at 10 km. When we climb 8km in both columns we would see cold column has reached tropopause pressure but hot one has to lower it's pressure for 2 more kms to match that of what cold column currently has, at 8 km.

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You forgot that the pressure *decreases* as we move upward. So at the same height there will be low pressure for cold air and a higher pressure for warm air

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what happens when we get an Azores high?

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[@grindupBaker]

The Jet Streams exist because the Coriolis Effect formula is: Acceleration (West--->East) = f (Velocity Equator--->Pole, Latitude) and that has "Velocity" on the right but it has "Acceleration" on the left, which makes it highly-geometrically increasing.

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Good video, but does the same theory apply for the subtropical jets?

[@stephensnell1379]

The Subtropical Jet Stream flows opposite to the Polar Jets. It flows East to West

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The cause of the subtropical jets, which flow west to east is slightly different, although, it also involves Coriolis force. Explained in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnWolHSum7iMl6s

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Why did u guys delet ur previous jet stream video

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Very well explained video but impossible to concentrate with the soundtrack. If budget would allow I'd suggests getting a pro VO done but htis one would be fine wothout the music.

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Great explanation but subtitles are distracting. An option for the future maybe?