Boundaries between hot and cold air. - What do jet streams follow., Relatively narrow bands of strong wind in the upper levels of the atmosphere. - What are Jet Systems?, The winds blow from west to east in jet streams but the flow often shifts to the North and South. - Where do flows of a Jet Stream often shift to?, Jet streams are the strongest for both the northern and southern hemisphere winters. - Which two hemispheres are the strongest for Jet Streams?, They are responsible for transporting the weather systems that affect us. The polar front is the boundary between the cold North Pole air and the warm equatorial air. - What are jet streams responsible for?, This happens because Earth's rotation generates what is known as the Coriolis effect. The Coriolis effect makes wind systems twist counter-clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. - Why do the winds blow from west to east?,

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