What Was It All About?

Wasabrishi was the first to see this unseen thing, but there were other scientists before him who had wondered whether it might be up there. When cold polar winds collide with more temperate southern ones, it produces a narrow band of stronger wind in the upper atmosphere at an altitude that ranges between 30 and forty five thousand feet, depending. He was also the first to understand that this current, which would later be called the jet stream, wasn't isolated to japan, or indeed to europe, but was one of two that circled the globe,. blowing fiercely around and around in wobbling rings.