How the Polar Vortex Can Bring Arctic Blasts to the U.S. Vast weather patterns can carry blasts of frigid air far from the ...

The blast of cold that fueled record snowfall across Gulf Coast beaches last week was just the latest to transport frigid air that normally swirls above the North Pole to places much farther south ...

The polar vortex is a gigantic circular upper-air weather pattern in the Arctic that envelops the North Pole. It's a normal pattern that is stronger in the winter and tends to keep the coldest weather ...

Forecasters warn that a split polar vortex is set to bring a 'large supply of cold air' to North America in mid-February as a ...

A polar vortex is slated to sweep most of the continental ... and 60s and 70s in the Desert Southwest. Winter storm warnings have been issued in New York Sunday afternoon into Sunday night ...

The vortex is located in the stratosphere, the layer above the troposphere (the troposphere is where we live and most weather occurs). In the winter, the polar vortex helps keep frigid ...

Giulia joined Newsweek in 2022 ... winter, often expanding and sending cold air southward. This is what's going to happen this weekend and next week, according to meteorologists, with the polar ...

Intense snowy wintry weather in the US has been fuelled by activity of the polar vortex, slipping down to engulf large parts of the country. Early January's winter storm prompted seven states to ...

Here's how the polar vortex, and climate change, influence extremely cold winter weather in the US. Intense snowy wintry weather in the US has been fuelled by activity of the polar vortex ...

Similar polar vortex events have occured in recent years, including the deadly 2021 Texas winter storm that knocked out power and resulted in hundreds of deaths. A polar vortex last January also ...