The big winter weather challenge has now come and gone in the form of last week’s polar vortex. The Eastern railroads got ...

In 2000, residents of the Portland area had to wait until January 16th for the first inch of snow marked as the latest first ...

When there are disturbances in which the Jet Stream weakens, it can become wobbly. This allows the cold air to plunge southwards. A disrupted polar vortex does not happen every year. Very much so what ...

Frigid temperatures engulfed the South on Monday ahead of a winter storm that’s expected to spread heavy snow and disruptive ...

According to the NWS, the Arctic polar vortex is a powerful band of west-to-east winds that develops in the stratosphere, ...

Tens of millions of residents along the East Coast are bracing for several inches of snow Sunday followed by dangerously cold ...

A polar vortex is slated to sweep most of the continental US bringing winter storm warnings and a hazardous freeze to ...

Global News meteorologist Anthony Farnell said the chilly temperatures, caused by a polar vortex spinning across Canada, will “overwhelm” and will start this weekend and carry into next week.

These conditions are all thanks to a familiar sounding occurrence: the polar vortex, a large area of low pressure and cold air that surrounds the Earth's poles. The "vortex" is the counterclockwise ...

A polar vortex of brutally cold air that normally ... D.C., “dump[ing] enough snow to shovel and plow in areas from West Virginia to Maine.” The weather is likely to trigger traffic problems ...