The Polar Vortex,an atmospheric phenomenon that shapes our winter weather,has been gaining attention as it undergoes changes ...

Three factors are combining to increase the likelihood of a weaker polar vortex this winter, the website reports. And a ...

The majority of the country will wake to bone-chilling temperatures Thursday, with dozens of temperature records at risk of being broken. The massive outbreak of cold air is connected to the polar ...

Despite a warming climate, bone-chilling winter cold can grip parts of the U.S. In a study appearing in Science Advances, ...

Winter, which is warming faster than any other season for much of the US, seems to be making a comeback for the first time in years; this January was the coldest in the Lower 48 since 1988.

The polar vortex is a persistent area of low pressure dozens of miles above the earth's poles (both northern and southern). Because the vortex is so high up in the atmosphere, and because it's ...

The term “polar vortex” usually refers to the gigantic circular upper air weather pattern in the Arctic region. It is a normal pattern that is stronger in the winter and keeps some of the ...

Meteorologists warn that the coldest burst of Arctic air this season is coming to put an icy and prolonged exclamation point on America’s winter of repeated polar vortex invasions starting this ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — The coldest burst of Arctic air this season is coming to put an icy exclamation point on America's winter of repeated polar vortex invasions, meteorologists warn. And it will ...

These polar vortex stretches are happening more frequently as the world — and especially the Arctic — warms, a 2021 paper published in the journal Science, also co-authored by Cohen, demonstrated.