While the storm is over, the Arctic air blast from the polar vortex is still blanketing much of the country, including Mississippi. There was an extreme cold warning because of frigid overnight ...

A diminished sea ice cover can amplify the movement of planetary waves, disturbing the polar vortex up in the stratosphere. When the vortex gets disturbed, it can send blasts of cold air to mid ...

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Meteorologists warn that the coldest burst of Arctic air this season is coming to put an icy and prolonged exclamation point ...

The latest arctic blast will move into the northern Rockies and northern Plains Saturday and spread to the central and ...

Colorado will see its coldest temperatures of the winter as a mass of cold air descends on the state from the Artic. But despite the bitter cold, this weather event is not a polar vortex.

This winter, however, the Polar Vortex has been very strong and nicely circular. Nevertheless, very cold air has managed to find its way southward into our region already last month and again this ...

Tennessee, along with most of the lower 48 states, can expect a blast of cold air thanks to a polar vortex. The term has recently become popularized describe any blast of arctic air that gives us ...

This rush of cold air is not directly caused by the actual polar vortex releasing and stretching south into the Lower 48, but the vortex is playing a role in the Arctic air that’s on the way.

Unlike in February 2023 when polar vortex slipped New England into a deep freeze, this rush of cold air has certainly been influenced by the vortex but it’s not the main culprit. High pressure ...