The intense cold snap about to settle over most of Canada and the U.S. has been dubbed a “polar vortex’, but Environment ...

North Country SAVER and North Country ANGLER - provide insight into the news and happenings of northern Minnesota, alongside ...

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

Minot residents have been experiencing temperature whiplash with relatively warm temperatures dropping precipitously below ...

These cold weather snaps featuring arctic air leaving its usual polar confines can be the result of a weakening of the polar vortex ... climate phenomenon, the El Niño/Southern Oscillation ...

The US was hit with a record number of flood emergencies in 2024, as well as almost 40,000 fires, and several droughts across vast swaths of the country. In California alone, the number of days with a ...

This map of barometric pattern anomalies at around 18,000 feet shows the path the polar jet stream will be ... stored oceanic warmth from a previous El Nino with anthropogenic (human-caused ...

The organization blames climate change — along with a lack of weather patterns that blocked cold air as well as a strong El Niño — for this change. As for whether or not the polar vortex will be ...

Past experience and studies on the interactions between El Niño, La Niña, and the Polar Vortex suggest that cold waves may occur more frequently than expected. It is therefore essential not to ...