This cold was certainly extraordinary, but the polar vortex event of January 2019 brought life in the northern and central United States to a frozen halt. At that time in our area, the coldest actual ...

The unseasonable chill that has swept through the eastern half of the US defies last year's mild winters and the South's ...

Arctic air came crashing behind the snowstorm ... The cold blast was the result of a lobe of the dreaded polar vortex dropping southward into the United States. It is a largely misunderstood ...

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 ...

"Weather connects people to each other and to places, and I hope we all saw a bit of magic and possibility in the world and ...

being forced thousands of miles south of its normal location by a displaced Polar Vortex. That Polar Vortex, normally far north in Canada, is positioned in the northern U.S. — forced south by ...

A dangerous and potentially life-threatening stretch of cold weather has much of the U.S. on alert as a lobe of the polar vortex invades the nation and sends temperatures tumbling to levels not ...

Nor has there been a “sudden stratospheric warming” event of the kind that sometimes fractures the stratospheric polar vortex in mid-winter and flings polar airmasses down to lower latitudes.