January 2025 has been the coldest since 2018 and the fourth-coldest since the turn of the century. It looks like it could get ...

A historic winter storm is poised to produce potentially record-breaking snows from coastal Texas to northern Florida late ...

These severe cold events occur when the polar jet stream – the familiar jet stream of winter that runs along the boundary ...

In its January to March 2025 outlook, the NWS said polar vortex winds were expected to remain strong through January, meaning ...

However, when the stratospheric polar vortex weakens and gets “kicked” off the pole, it reverberates down to the tropospheric polar vortex and causes it to run amuck in the lower latitudes.

With the next Arctic Outbreak looming close, we take a dive into what the Polar Vortex is and how it will affect our area: ...

The polar vortex is a low-pressure system of cold air that swirls above Earth’s poles. There’s one over the South Pole in ...

The bitter weather is expected to bring nighttime lows as cold as minus 31 deg C over the weekend. Read more at ...

Polar vortex brings frigid air to US, making Trump's inauguration coldest in 40 years, moved indoors due to cold.

For the purposes of this article, we're talking about the stratospheric polar vortex. It's a semi-permanent area of low pressure that resides over the Arctic. Stable polar vortex: When the ...

The polar vortex is an air mass above the North Pole, located high in the stratosphere. Humans dwell in the troposphere, and the stratosphere is just above it. Chenard added that temperatures ...