Since the Ice Ages, the Polar Vortex has acted as a climatic gatekeeper. When breached, it unleashes freezing air into regions unprepared for it. This decade, those breaches are becoming more frequent ...

The term “polar vortex” might conjure images of mythical icy storms swirling through the North Pole but in reality it’s a ...

The cause of the week-long deep freeze? A polar vortex collapse. Now, meteorologists are calling for another collapse in the middle of March, one that could plunge the U.S., Canada, and parts of ...

Data from a polar vortex splitting during 2002’s Southern Hemisphere sudden warming event helps expand models to accommodate ...

A pinwheeling section of the polar vortex is clearing customs at the Canadian border, heading for the northern Plains, Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast U.S. For millions, this may be the ...

The great weather we're currently enjoying is down to a a blocking area of high pressure sitting just to the north of Ireland ...

Damond Benningfield A somewhat alarming new phrase entered the American lexicon when parts of the United States were plunged into an especially bitter deep freeze in January 2014: “polar vortex.” ...

More than half of all the stations have had their highest ever mean maximum temperatures for spring and the majority of all ...

This phenomenon results in the entry of cold air into our region, which will through the so-called gates of Vienna cause significant cooling in the Balkans, as well as in our country, starting ...