How the Polar Vortex Can Bring Arctic Blasts to the U.S. Vast weather patterns can carry blasts of frigid air far from the ...

It’s going to be a rude awakening tomorrow — a full taste of winter, for sure,” National Weather Service meteorologist says ...

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 ...

Imagine the polar vortex as a giant, icy whirlpool far above the Earth, keeping frigid Arctic air contained near the north ...

This blast of cold weather is due to activity of the polar vortex.

When this stratospheric vortex becomes disrupted or stretched, it can distort the jet stream as well, pushing it southward in some areas and causing cold air outbreaks. The Arctic polar vortex is ...

This can cause warmer air from the mid-latitudes to move up to the Arctic Circle, and vice versa, the cooler air from the Arctic Circle can move down to the mid-latitudes. The polar vortex moving into ...

A polar vortex of brutally cold air that normally circles the Arctic will be spilling southward ... cold winds and plummeting temperatures could cause pipes to freeze and burst, possibly affect ...

The end of the workweek has spoiled us with snow melt thanks to high temperatures ... A developing area of upper-level arctic cold air will swing into much of the northern and eastern United ...

Most of the country will likely be hit by an arctic blast this weekend into early next week as the polar vortex ushers in cold ... around longer and struggle to melt as a result of the arctic ...