Despite a warming climate, bone-chilling winter cold can grip parts of the U.S. In a study appearing in Science Advances, researchers found that two specific patterns in the polar vortex, a swirling ...

The United States has been at the epicenter of the planet’s most unusually cold conditions early in 2025. The polar vortex is ...

Bitingly cold Arctic air keeps pummeling the U.S. with ruthless cold snaps—despite warming winters nationwide. A study explains why: the solution lies far above your head, in the upper atmosphere ...

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Even in a warming climate, brutal cold snaps still hammer parts of the U.S., and a new study uncovers why. High above the Arctic, two distinct polar vortex patterns — both distorted and displaced — ...

Face it — "polar vortex" is fun to say. It sounds like something that could have killed a red-shirted crewmember on the original "Star Trek" television series. Maybe that's why a weather feature that ...

An Arctic blast could bring freezing temperatures and heavy snow to Kentucky around Thanksgiving weekend. A "sudden stratospheric warming" event may disrupt the polar vortex, potentially causing ...