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

Much of the U.S. has seen a major dip in temperatures combined with winter storm conditions over the weekend, thanks to an expansion of the polar vortex—the area of cold air that circulates ... to ...

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.

Scientists say a "swirling polar vortex" miles above the Earth caused three deadly storms in the UK and Ireland, which ...

Powerful winter storms which led to deaths and power outages in the UK and Ireland were made more likely by an intense swirling vortex of winds miles above the Arctic, say scientists.