As the National Weather Service explains, the polar vortex is an area of low pressure and cold air that exists over both of ...

The United States has been at the epicenter of the planet’s most unusually cold conditions early in 2025. The polar vortex is to blame.

The polar vortex could be reversing in a sudden stratospheric warming event, with the potential to send Arctic air and storms ...

The event could cause extreme winter weather and disrupt travel across the US and Canada - will it make it across the pond?

The polar vortex is a “constant feature” that begins to develop sometime in September and persists through sometime in spring ...

South of the Arctic’s polar vortex is the jet stream, a river of west to east air that flows five to nine miles above ground, and helps keep the pole’s cold air confined to the Arctic.

The jet stream and frigid air just could not make it quite as far south without also having help from the polar vortex, according to Cohen. That’s because the polar vortex doesn’t cause US ...

The swirling vortex, when strong, can actually suck the Arctic cold up into the North Pole region ... the Polar Vortex could bounce back over the polar region and head south into eastern Canada.

South of the Arctic’s polar vortex is the jet stream, a river of west to east air that flows five to nine miles above ground, and helps keep the pole’s cold air confined to the Arctic. When the vortex ...

Strong westerly winds banded together in the stratosphere of the North Pole are what make up the Arctic polar vortex ... due in large part to its proximity to this year’s polar vortex,” Noll said, ...

SCOTT OLSON/GETTY IMAGES BISMARCK, North Dakota — More than 95 million people in the United States were facing numbing cold on Tuesday as a polar vortex sent ... the North Pole on Tuesday ...