A major disruption to the Arctic polar vortex has bumped the ring of wind that circles the North Pole off its perch and towards Europe, a new animation shows. The migration could trigger ...

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 ...

This winter’s harsh run is intensifying, with some of the coldest air so far this season plunging into New Hampshire.

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – Scientists are investigating whether a warming Arctic is changing the behavior of the polar vortex, ...

Images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft show a concentration of high-altitude haze and a vortex materializing at the south pole of Saturn’s moon Titan, signs that the seasons are turning on Saturn’s ...

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, ...

New York is bracing for the coldest air of the winter this weekend, with snow. Learn how the polar vortex is involved.

A Polar Vortex brought temperatures so cold in January 2014 that it froze Niagara Falls. Signals of a rare sudden stratospheric warming in the next two weeks have some forecasting an imminent Arctic ...

This winter’s harsh run in the East is intensifying, with some of the coldest air so far this season plunging into Vermont this weekend.

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. When you ...