The cold temperatures are coming from a not uncommon expansion in the Polar Vortex, which are counter-clockwise rotating air ...

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 .

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.

A mass of air called the polar vortex has escaped the Arctic and plunged southward. Some scientists see the fingerprints of climate change.

The LDH reported one winter weather-related death in the state this year—a 65-year-old man in Rapides Parish who died due to ...

Unprecedented snowfall hits the U.S. South. Discover how this winter storm is setting new records and causing rare blizzard ...

The United States is currently experiencing an intense cold front linked to the so-called Arctic “polar vortex”.  The icy air ...

Snow and ice will develop in Texas and Louisiana Monday night before spreading ... Life-threatening' cold temperatures generated by a polar vortex will be fueling Winter Storm Enzo, bringing ...

Louisiana isn’t known for extreme cold weather—but that changed Tuesday, when the National Weather Service issued its ...

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

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The plunging polar vortex brought subfreezing temperatures Tuesday to some of the southernmost points of the U.S., threatening to dump snow on parts of Texas and Oklahoma in ...