The polar vortex's blast of Arctic air from Canada brought the season's coldest weather to the majority of U.S. The vortex is ...

Here's the latest on the winter storm. A historic winter storm is poised to produce potentially record-breaking snows from ...

This blast of frozen temperatures is tied to a polar vortex... but what is that? Air spins around the notoriously cold North and South Poles. When the air is spinning fast, it's stable, but when it is ...

The cold snap that we’ve experienced is caused by a phenomenon called the polar vortex. There is a large area of cold air that is always spinning near the poles. And that air is typically kept to the ...