A researcher expects the polar vortex to strengthen over the next two weeks. This has a big impact on our day-to-day weather here in the Great Lakes region and even the Northeast. Judah Cohen ...

Here in the lower Great Lakes Region, we are well-equipped to handle blasts of cold and snow. It’s when the polar vortex sends arctic air into areas that don’t usually receive it that it can ...

The 2024-2025 Great Lakes ice season has seen near-normal ice cover, a change from recent years with record lows. Ice cover peaked in February at just over 50% due to a polar vortex.

DENVER — The weather during the week of Thanksgiving will get very interesting, with the remnants of a bomb cyclone and a polar vortex within a seven-day span. The remnants of a bomb cyclone ...

As a result, the northern Plains and Great Lakes will be colder than average. Many areas will see their first snow of the season. But this is not the polar vortex itself. It is air influenced by ...

Before leaving exiting the U.S. into Canada's Maritimes region on Monday, the storm cyclone is set to trigger lake-effect snow from the upper Great Lakes. The weather service also reported rain ...

Then on Friday, a polar vortex intrusion is likely to interrupt post-Thanksgiving travel in the eastern states. Denver and other parts of northeast Colorado will likely remain very cold into next ...

Firstly, the Great Lakes’ surface water temperatures are still near 40 degrees. The Arctic air associated with the southward moving Polar Vortex will bring 10 below zero to 20 below zero ...

States bordering the Great Lakes will get “anywhere between 6-12 inches of snow,” while areas downwind of the lakes could get more.

The Great Lakes hold almost one-fifth of the freshwater in the world and partially freeze over every winter. But over the last forty years, the average ice cover has decreased by 70%.

The polar vortex is not synonymous with a cold snap. In fact, the stratosphere is 10 to 30 miles above the earth’s surface and above the polar jet stream and other systems that create most ...