An Arctic blast that began in the northern plains on Saturday spread bitter cold from the Rockies through the East Coast and ...

NEW ORLEANS -- The vast majority of Americans are about to get an extended taste of frigid Siberian weather. Another polar vortex disruption will stretch Arctic air across the top of the globe and ...

It's about to get very, very cold for lots of Americans. A series of blasts of polar vortex air from the north will bring subfreezing temperatures as well as ice and snowstorms to 40 US states ...

In seven to 14 days, a blast of arctic air will wash over the eastern half of the United States, forecasters say. There is a “pretty good chance” the vortex will bring with it “significant ...

Basically, the term polar vortex describes a large area of low pressure and cold air that usually sits at both of the Earth’s poles, according to the National Weather Service. It becomes ...

Gillian Henry/Getty A polar vortex is about to impact the United States and deliver what the National Weather Service has described as “the coldest air of the season to date.” Meteorologists ...

But in reality, it's always been there and always will be there. The Polar Vortex is a circulation of very cold, polar air that normally resides up at the poles. Hence, the root of the word "polar ...

However, there are times in which the polar vortex is disrupted by influxes of warm air. When strong atmospheric waves in the troposphere, the layer in which we live, breach the stratosphere ...

The Mid-Atlantic is in for plummeting temps in the new year. A polar vortex, a massive pocket of frigid air that swirls in place over the North Pole, is expected to spill out and push Arctic temps ...

The upcoming polar vortex will bring arctic air from Canada down throughout most of the U.S. While not as severe as the 2021 Great Texas Freeze, the phenomenon will quickly drop temperatures into the ...