Data from a polar vortex splitting during 2002’s Southern Hemisphere sudden warming event helps expand models to accommodate ...

The extended period of dry, sunny weather is expected to conclude in about a week, with the UK Met Office forecasting a ...

Since the Ice Ages, the Polar Vortex has acted as a climatic gatekeeper. When breached, it unleashes freezing air into regions unprepared for it. This decade, those breaches are becoming more frequent ...

The cause of the week-long deep freeze? A polar vortex collapse. Now, meteorologists are calling for another collapse in the middle of March, one that could plunge the U.S., Canada, and parts of ...

The great weather we're currently enjoying is down to a a blocking area of high pressure sitting just to the north of Ireland ...

Damond Benningfield A somewhat alarming new phrase entered the American lexicon when parts of the United States were plunged into an especially bitter deep freeze in January 2014: “polar vortex.” ...

However, it's not all bad news, as weather experts predict that the record-breaking sunshine could continue for most of the ...

More than half of all the stations have had their highest ever mean maximum temperatures for spring and the majority of all ...

The plunging polar vortex brought subfreezing temperatures Tuesday to some of the southernmost points of the U.S., threatening to dump snow on parts of Texas and Oklahoma in coming days and ...

Weather patterns this month are being shaped by the collapse in March of a band of high-altitude winds known as the polar vortex. That occurred earlier than usual this year, triggering a ...