A strong polar vortex in the stratosphere has brought subzero temperatures to the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and deep into the ...
It's like "bomb cyclone" or "firenado." It seems like the sort of phenomenon that would be responsible for the ...
The most unusually cold air in the Northern Hemisphere will be over the United States early next week, bringing dangerously ...
How the Polar Vortex Can Bring Arctic Blasts to the U.S. Vast weather patterns can carry blasts of frigid air far from the ...
Some of the coldest air in years is expected to plunge into the High Plains, Midwest and finally the East in the coming days ...
The polar vortex is like a giant, swirling pool of super-cold air in the upper atmosphere over the North Pole. Imagine it like ... air can spill out and slide south, making places like the United ...
A series of disturbances in the atmosphere is sending the polar vortex south (again) next week with a burst of even colder ...
Imagine the polar vortex as a giant, icy whirlpool far above the Earth, keeping frigid Arctic air contained near the north ...
This blast of cold weather is due to activity of the polar vortex.
These severe cold events occur when the polar jet stream – the familiar jet stream of winter that runs along the boundary ...
The polar vortex is always around. It is a channel of strong winds high up in the atmosphere that circles the poles. One over ...
However, Ol’ Man Winter has had other ideas. Instead of spinning his polar vortex in a nice tight loop around the North Pole (which keeps the cold air tightly-wound around the pole), he’s been doing a ...