ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A huge swath of the U.S. was blasted with ice, snow and wind on Monday as the polar vortex that dipped south over the weekend kept much of the country east of the Rockies in its ...

Brrr, January 2025 is bringing some serious chill! 🥶 Dive into the science of the polar vortex and learn what’s behind this unexpected cold snap. Let’s unravel the mystery together!

"The large polar vortex disruption from the second week of March is playing a key role in next week’s eastern US cold snap," meteorologist Judah Cohen of Atmospheric and Environmental Research told ...

Warm conditions across much of Europe are forecast to give way to periods of unseasonably cool temperatures and stormy weather during April. The first such shift will take place over the weekend ...

Researchers from the University of Leeds have found there was an extremely strong stratospheric polar vortex (SPV) – a large spinning mass of cold air in the stratosphere around 15 miles above ...

A polar vortex collapse occurs when the layer between 10 and 50km above Earth’s surface warms up to 50 degrees in just two days - known as sudden stratospheric warming (SSW). This warming can ...

The polar vortex that has dealt the most brutal winter to much of the US in recent years is about to be broken down – but not before unleashing a late-season cold and the biggest yet.

And while the weather will remain relatively warm for the next week, a polar vortex collapse expected over the next two weeks may bring cold temperatures and even snow to Columbus. Here is what ...

Those rumors came from a weather blog in north Texas that posted about the "polar vortex" a few days after Christmas. At the moment, there is no cold air outbreak in the forecast, even extended.

In recent days, extreme weather brought freezing temperatures to several states across the country due to a polar vortex that peaked on Wednesday, February 19. According to The Associated Press ...