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 ...

How Alaska’s cold keeps ending up in the Lower 48 A few atmospheric factors — including the polar vortex — have come together to make the US the epicenter of cold this winter. One is a ...

When the polar vortex is strong, it locks the cold air in the arctic. When the polar vortex gets weaker, or breaks up, it unleashes cold air to the south. People bear the cold in New York City ...

Millions of people across the U.S. will experience subzero or below-average temperatures in the coming days as a polar vortex ...

You can get in touch with Joe by emailing [email protected] While meteorologists say that in most cases, polar vortex intrusions aren't disruptive, they are sometimes associated with cold ...

Those rumors came from a weather blog in north Texas that posted about the "polar vortex" a few days after Christmas. At the moment, there is no cold air outbreak in the forecast, even extended.

While most polar vortex forecasts are often unpredictable, Fox Weather said this round of cold is different. “This is a very highly confident forecast. Across the board the weather models are ...

we would love to be able to tell you how the stratospheric polar vortex is doing super cool things that can explain how cold and snowy it’s been in many parts of the US this winter. But the ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A polar vortex has the potential to bring extremely cold temperatures to much of the lower 48 states. It is “a large area of low pressure and cold air surrounding both of Earth ...