Scientists have banded about 4,000 chicks and 40,000 adult penguins in this area over the past 33 years to find out how long they live and where they feed, swim and nest. Eight penguins ...

A sudden stratospheric warming event reversed the winds that make up the northern polar vortex on March 9. A new animation ...

Don't put away those winter coats just yet. An April cold snap is forecast for much of the eastern half of the U.S. early next week, forecasters said, with freezes likely across portions of the ...

The polar vortex slid toward Europe in recent weeks, ushering in cooler temperatures to portions of Canada A significant disruption to the polar vortex over far Northern Canada will keep the ...

The Polar Vortex in the upper atmosphere has disintegrated after the intense warming of the stratosphere in mid-March. Currently, its remains are traveling eastward across Canada to the United States.

A significant disruption to the polar vortex over far Northern Canada will keep the pattern’s influence locked in our neck of the woods like a houseguest overstaying their welcome. Even as the world ...

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 ...

Scientists say a "swirling polar vortex" miles above the Earth caused three deadly storms in the UK and Ireland, which brought severe flooding and record wind speeds. Four people lost their lives ...

"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 ...