It’s really, really cold again – as the US shivers through at least the eighth blast of air from the Arctic this winter. Here ...

But where exactly is this air coming from, and how did it arrive? For starters, the Arctic polar vortex is a band of strong westerly winds that form in the stratosphere between about 10 and 30 ...

Meteorologists warn that the coldest burst of Arctic air this season is coming to put an icy and prolonged exclamation point ...

Some of the coldest temperatures are expected in Montana, and avalanche warnings have been issued in Utah, Colorado and ...

Meteorologists had predicted that parts of the U.S. would experience the 10th and coldest polar vortex event this season.

A lobe of the polar vortex, a ring of freezing air typically found near the ... Monday: South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa and ...

The polar vortex has taken on an unexpected pattern this winter — one that’s made part of the United States the most unusually cold place on the planet, at least so far this year. While the ...

Heavy snow falls as a person walks along U.S. Route 42 in Florence, Ky., Monday, Jan. (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) From reproductive ...

These polar vortex stretches are happening more frequently as the world — and especially the Arctic — warms, a 2021 paper published in the journal Science, also co-authored by Cohen ...