The massive outbreak of cold air is connected to the polar vortex, a lobe of frigid air ... The shot of cold air won’t impact California or the West Coast. In the wake of a weak cold front ...

The Polar Vortex in the upper atmosphere has disintegrated after the intense warming of the stratosphere in mid-March.

Several days with temperatures of 10-20 degrees below the historical average could be dangerous to plants and ruin outdoor ...

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 ...

When the polar vortex begins to wobble and allows arctic air to spill south into northern Illinois in January, we usually end up with dangerously-cold air around Chicago. When it happens in April ...

A sudden stratospheric warming event reversed the winds that make up the northern polar vortex on March 9. A new animation shows the vortex also moved away from the Arctic towards Europe.

"The large polar vortex disruption from the second week of March is playing a key role in next week’s eastern US cold snap," meteorologist Judah Cohen of Atmospheric and Environmental Research told ...

Don't put away those winter coats just yet. An April cold snap is forecast for much of the eastern half of the U.S. early next week, forecasters said, with freezes likely across portions of the ...