It's a term you hear every couple of winters, when we get stuck in the coldest of cold patterns – polar vortex. But what exactly is it and how does it impact our weather? The polar vortex is ...

Most of the US will enjoy milder temperatures on Thursday, but the warmup will be brief as a polar vortex will send temperatures tumbling below freezing for most of the nation starting this ...

This will be due to a polar vortex, an area of strong winds that encircle the Arctic and typically keeps the coldest air locked near the Pole, according to the FOX Forecast Center. This weekend and ...

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 ...

Most of the country will likely be hit by an arctic blast this weekend into early next week as the polar vortex ushers in cold air from Siberia and multiple storms roll in and bring the potential ...

A lobe of the polar vortex, a stormy ring that typically ... 30 in some states — and raises the potential for new storms to form as the icy air clashes with the warm, moist air of the Gulf ...

The first is the polar jet stream, a huge current of air that circles the globe between 50 and 60 degrees north latitude within the low-altitude troposphere, the same layer of atmosphere where ...

One of the key players in these dramatic shifts is something called the polar vortex. The polar vortex is a massive area of cold air located high in the atmosphere, typically spinning over the ...

Satellites orbiting the Earth have captured the effects of a "polar vortex" on camera ... the U.S. and Canada for the rest of the month. A number of weather warnings have been put in place ...

The Arctic polar vortex has been pushing icy winds throughout the nation, with swathes of the U.S. blanketed in snow. Half of the country was under either winter storm warnings or winter weather ...

The connection, Cohen said, lies in the polar vortex, a swirling body of frigid air that circles the Arctic. A second polar vortex swirls over Antarctica. Typically that cold air is contained by a ...