Despite a warming climate, bone-chilling winter cold can grip parts of the U.S. In a study appearing in Science Advances, researchers found that two specific patterns in the polar vortex, a swirling ...
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 ...