The jet stream is a very high altitude parcel of air. It has to do with the differential between a the land and the sea, and then also the topography of the land as well. If you've ever gone to the beach at all, you know that it's cooler near the beach and near the ocean than it is inland. Ed points out that it was really world war too, where we started to understand the benefits of the jet stream.
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