Understanding the Low Level Jet Stream by Rod Machado

One of the most interesting things about understanding weather is how simple it can be to understand it. That's right. Most of the weather we deal with as pilots is the result of two things: uneven heat distribution and the coriolis force. In this video that's excerpted from my animated, interactive "Understanding Weather" eLearning course, I'll show you how the low level jet stream results from these two items. I hope you enjoy this. Please subscribe to my UA-cam site and follow me on Facebook and Instagram, too.
Rod Machado

[@spitfirealexix3640]

This was the video I needed. THANKS

[@safmadu1]

Thank you teacher! this lecture is very understandable!!! 👍👍👍👍

[@houbrechtsjohan]

This is a very good video which I appreciate very much. Can I ask the following question? At the polar front we have the polar front jet stream at about 30.000ft. At the polar front we have the polar front depressions which consist of a warm front, a cold front and an occluded front. These warm and cold fronts of the polar front depressions generate the cyclone induced low level jet stream as you are explaining in your video. Now my question is: is the polar front jet stream and these cyclone induced low level jet stream the same jetstream? I appreciate very much if you can answer this question. Kind regards, Johan.

[@Flight-Instructor]

Greetings Johan:
The jet stream associated with the Ploar front and the low level jet stream are two different things. One is a global phenomenon, and the latter is a local event. They operate on similar principles but are very different from each other.
Sincerely,
Rod Machado

[@EduardoRohdeEras]

Excellent explanation! Thank you!

[@nicholasbaines6167]

Amazing LLJ explanation

[@grindupBaker]

The Jet Streams exist because the Coriolis Effect formula form is:
Acceleration [east west] = f (velocity [north south}, latitude)
and is not
Velocity [east west] = f (velocity [north south}, latitude)
The 1st formula, the actual one, is highly geometrically increasing causing a harder right turn in northern hemisphere the faster the air tries to barrel straight to the North Pole. It's an irony that the slower the air the further it's able to sneak its way to the North Pole like softly softly catchee monkey.
Of course, tornadoes, hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones & anti-cyclones also get their spiral and high wind speeds in some cases from the Coriolis Effect.

[@gba7613]

Difficult to understand in first instance. So going to watch again and again.

[@amateurstormchaser1452]

Agreed, a lot of info