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 ...

Am I going to be buried in snow? As its name implies, the circumpolar vortex is a counterclockwise-spinning (northern hemisphere) swirl of super-cold air in the upper atmosphere that sits atop the ...

According to AccuWeather, a polar vortex occurs when several low-pressure bursts of cold air move in from the Arctic Circle. It exists about 15 to 30 miles above the Earth's surface. The air ...

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 ...

Tennessee, along with most of the lower 48 states, can expect a blast of cold air thanks to a polar vortex. The term has recently become popularized describe any blast of arctic air that gives us ...

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 ...