Teleconnections in our atmosphere allow conditions in one part of the world to affect weather patterns thousands of ...

The Polar Vortex in the upper atmosphere has disintegrated after the intense warming of the stratosphere in mid-March.

April 5, 2025 - By Laura Ciasto and Amy Butler - After spending much of the season with super strong wind speeds, the polar ...

Several days with temperatures of 10-20 degrees below the historical average could be dangerous to plants and ruin outdoor ...

A sudden stratospheric warming event reversed the winds that make up the northern polar vortex on March 9. A new animation ...

The polar vortex in the stratosphere broke up, which caused the movement of cold Arctic air towards southern latitudes, ...

Spring may have technically sprung in the Northern Hemisphere, but the lingering impact of the collapsing polar vortex could ...

Devastating winter storms that led to deaths and power outages across the UK and Ireland were driven by an intense swirling ...

A team of researchers from the Met Office and the University of Leeds has pinpointed a new reason for winter storm clusters, ...

The UK has had its fair share of meteorological upheaval over the past few years. This year alone, we have experienced Arctic ...

February 2022 was also characterised by an extremely strong stratospheric polar vortex - a large spinning mass of cold air in the stratosphere ... or more storms reaching the UK in a single week by ...

The storms were made more likely by an intense swirling vortex of winds miles above the Arctic, say scientists.