A lobe of the polar vortex, a stormy ring that typically keeps the coldest air locked up near the North Pole, will dip southward into the United States this weekend into next week. Polar air ...

The vortex is essentially an area of low pressure in the upper layers of the atmosphere over the polar region up north. This ...

According to the NWS, the Arctic polar vortex is a powerful band of west-to-east winds that develops in the stratosphere, ...

The weather flow is gradually changing now and as we head into early February. Our storm systems will come from the west and ...

The Beast from the East is usually linked to a polar vortex meaning brutal Scandinavian weather is pushed across the UK ...

At the same time we go into a touch milder southwest flow, the polar vortex will still be churning away over northeast Canada. I don’t expect a full onslaught of the polar vortex to shift south ...

The upcoming midweek storm is one of several systems that promises to bring precipitation and eventually the month's coldest ...

Europe may be in for another cold blast like the one that surprised forecasters and sent gas prices soaring last week, with the potential weakening of winds that keep frigid air confined to the Arctic ...

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 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 ...

Alan O'Reilly from Carlow Weather has been reacting to reports from long-range forecasters predicting a significant ...