Spring may have technically sprung in the Northern Hemisphere, but the lingering impact of the collapsing polar vortex could ...

Much of the U.S. has seen a major dip in temperatures combined with winter storm conditions over the weekend, thanks to an expansion of the polar vortex—the area of cold air that circulates around the ...

As the National Weather Service explains, the polar vortex is an area of low pressure and cold air that exists over both of Earth’s poles 10 to 30 miles above the surface. The term vortex is used to ...

A senior meteorologist with AccuWeather foresees shots of cold air infiltrating the Northeast in the coming weeks.

Researchers say a spinning mass of cold air in the stratosphere above the Arctic in 2022 made it up to three times more ...

Powerful winter storms which led to deaths and power outages in the UK and Ireland were made more likely by an intense ...

Scientists have revealed the cause of three huge storms that battered the UK in space of a week in 2022. An "intense swirling ...

The storms were made more likely by an intense swirling vortex of winds miles above the Arctic, say scientists.

Researchers from the University of Leeds have found there was an extremely strong stratospheric polar vortex (SPV) – a large spinning mass of cold air in the stratosphere around 15 miles above ...

Scientists believe deadly Arctic winds were to blame for a series of savage storms that wreaked havoc in Britain over just a ...