There are more ways than we knew for the stratospheric polar vortex to get disrupted, shooting cold air southwards across ...

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

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

The polar vortex is essentially a large area of low pressure and cold air surrounding both of Earth’s poles. It constantly sits over the poles but expands in the winter.

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.

A late-season polar vortex could extend America's winter-like temperatures into early spring, according to AccuWeather. So far in December, temperatures across the nation have trended above average.

The polar vortex is aways around - it just normally stays near the North Pole. But when it descends into our area, get ready for really cold weather.

The Polar Vortex would be done for the summer and not return until next winter. If this was the final warming, it would be the second earliest on record according to Cohen. He says the earliest ...

The polar vortex is a “constant feature” that begins to develop sometime in September and persist through sometime in spring, say April or May, as previously detailed by Paul Pastelok, an ...

A polar vortex could bring the coldest January the U.S. has faced in years. National Weather Service experts told Newsweek that Americans can expect a colder-than-average start to the new year.