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On March 9, the polar vortex wobbled and then snapped back the other way as mighty winds, suddenly shifting from the west to the east - something that typically happens once a year - usually in the ...

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A "major disruption" has recently rocked the Arctic polar vortex, causing it to weaken and reverse direction from ...

Cold weather is expected to blanket New York through mid-April, bringing the chance of freezing temperatures, snowfall, as ...

Florida's orange juice industry is getting squeezed by hurricanes, citrus disease and changing consumer tastes as the state ...

February 2022 was also characterised by an extremely strong stratospheric polar vortex - a large spinning mass of cold air in the stratosphere around 15 miles above the Arctic that is prominent during ...

Researchers say a spinning mass of cold air in the stratosphere above the Arctic in 2022 made it up to three times more likely there would be intense storms in the UK and Ireland.

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