Originally Posted by
Chugalug2
. Any ideas of global air circulation was clearly beyond the imagination of aircrew in the 1960s, so we were spared such concepts. Presumably it was a concept shared amongst the cognoscenti though?
Since it had been widely known about for many decades before that date it might appear that the 'cognoscenti', ie the Met establishment were somewhat slow on the uptake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_stream