Expert are warning of a polar vortex collapse in the next couple of weeks, plunging North America into freezing temperatures. The weather phenomenon will hit in mid-March and will affect the ...

Much of it will boil down to what the polar vortex does, and how its shape and intensity evolve to affect the weather in North America. The ongoing El Niño may play a role as well. Why the polar ...

In mid-February, air temperatures 10 to 30 miles above the North Pole spiked as much as 50 degrees, setting in motion a chain-reaction process that’s already influencing the weather over North ...

A map showing a Polar Vortex that could effect eastern North America in February. X/Judah Cohen “For the first half of January, that polar vortex kind of stumbled and fell foul there, moved south.

When the polar vortex is strong, cold air is less likely to plunge deep into North America or Europe. Picture this strong vortex fencing off the coldest air from the U.S. and Europe.

Polar vortex blasts North America and Europe with snow. By Brian Witte and Patrick Whittle. January 6, 2025 — 10.46am. Save. Log in, register or subscribe to save articles for later.

That uncertainty means it’s also unclear whether polar vortex stretching actually leads to, or is just a result of, the tropospheric conditions that drive cold air outbreaks over North America.

The mass of extremely warm air threw the freezing polar vortex out of balance, shoving it off its North Pole axis so forcefully that it in effect split in two, as if growing a pair of legs: one ...

According to Severe Weather Europe, an online resource of global weather forecasts, pressure changes over North America, combined with shifts in the polar vortex, will establish a weather pattern ...

A polar vortex is an area of low pressure and cold air that surrounds both of Earth's poles. The vortex at the North Pole expands in winter, sending cold air south.