Supercharged jet stream contributing to floods

Meteorologists have said that a highly-charged jet stream is contributing the floods in Pakistan.

Meteorologists have said that a highly-charged jet stream is contributing to the worst floods Pakistan has seen in decades, reported telegraph.co.uk on Tuesday.

The jet stream, a massive ring of high speed winds, is moving quicker than usual over north western Pakistan, causing wet monsoon air to be sucked faster and higher into the atmosphere.

The stream, which is normally too high to affect everyday weather but does influence large scale weather patterns by shifting the atmosphere around, is ‘supercharging’ the monsoon, leading to some of the heaviest rainfall ever, telegraph reported.

The stream has split in two with one section heading north over Russia and the other going south over the Himalayas into Pakistan.

Experts say it is very unusual for the stream to head that far south.