A strong polar vortex in the stratosphere has brought subzero temperatures to the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and deep into the ...

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

Back when “climate change” took over—when the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide was well below 400 parts per ...

Frigid air that normally stays trapped in the Arctic has escaped, plunging deep into the United States for an extended visit ...

Anytime we get an Arctic air blast down this far south, this is an artifact of the polar vortex rearing its ugly head,” said climatologist Barry Keim .

Why Polar Vortexes Are Becoming More Common What do you think about this topic? Share your thoughts in the comments below — ...

Several Gulf states experienced a major snowstorm this week. Changes in global climate patterns can be connected to weird ...

Warmer-than-normal temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico did not cause the record-setting snowfall, but the conditions may have been an ingredient to the unusual weather.

The US has been engulfed by an icy cold snap, bringing rare snow to the southern states. Across the Atlantic, the UK is also ...

On a local level 2024 in Kansas City ranks as 4th warmest marked by an historic severe weather season and more.

The bitter weather – tied to an Arctic “polar vortex” blast – is expected ... While the link between global warming and heatwaves is very direct, the behaviour of winter storms is governed ...

The polar vortex picks up strength during the winter ... Such Arctic spillovers, though, have occurred naturally in the past. How does global warming play in? Jennifer Francis, a senior scientist ...