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Thanks for seeing us Mr. Eco. We need to learn more about a jet stream.

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Sure, I can show you a jet stream.

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You have one here?

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Only on a screen. What do you guys know about jet streams?

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We know that a jet stream is like a river of wind, way up high in the atmosphere.

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And that they can travel up to a few hundred miles per hour.

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That's great.

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Is the jet stream always in the same place?

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No, let me show you.

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Actually guys, there are multiple jet streams. Let's take a look at a couple of them.

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We have what we call the northern jet, and that is outlined in the blue.

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That's responsible for a lot of the cold air that comes down to the east coast.

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And then we have what we call the subtropical jet.

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That is outlined in the red right here.

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And that's responsible for bringing in a lot of warm, moist air for the east coast.

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We need to know if a jet stream was passing up our area the week that Mount Lemona surrupted.

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Sure, let's go look at the data.

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Actually look, over the past five to seven days, notice how the jet stream just goes further and further south.

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And what that does is it brings in all types of systems, and it's basically just below us,

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which lets everything drain down into our region.

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So you can see as the jet stream goes further south, all of the clouds and all of the debris comes right down on top of us.

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That has to be it then.

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If the jet stream traveled at a hundred miles per hour, and Mount Luminous is 7,000 miles away,

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it would take 70 hours for the ash to reach our area.

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With 24 hours in a day, three days would be 72 hours.

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That means that the jet stream could cause the sunrises and sunsets to be red.

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I think you guys have solved the mystery.

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Thanks, Mr. Eco. We really appreciate your help.