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 ...

Bitter cold is expected across much of the U.S. this weekend. But what do headlines mean when they say a "polar vortex cold snap" is on the way? The polar vortex is a regular feature of Earth's ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...