Freezing temperatures caused a water main to burst in Detroit recently, flooding neighborhood streets and turning them into ...

The D.C. area is wrapped up in a polar vortex, and this cold weather can wreak havoc on your plumbing if you’re unprepared.

A lobe of the polar vortex will arrive in the United States this weekend, bringing the lowest temperatures in years and snow ...

People living "basically anywhere from the Rockies eastward" will see extremely cold temperatures over the next several days, ...

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

A recent study explains how warmer temperatures at the top of the planet destabilize the jet stream and allow colder air to ...

The water system used to fight the Palisades fire in Los Angeles buckled under the demands of what turned out to be the most ...

Such cold air blasts have become known as the polar vortex. It's a long-established weather term that's become mainstream as its technical meaning changed a bit on the way. What it really means to ...

Cancel anytime. The extent of the cold could be dependent on a piece of the polar vortex. Frigid air that normally stays trapped in the Arctic has escaped, plunging deep into the United States for ...

Frigid air that normally stays in the Arctic has escaped, plunging deep into the United States for an extended visit that is expected to provoke teeth-chattering but not be record-shattering.

The freezing air is expected to make its way to Connecticut by way of a polar vortex, which is a large pocket of cold air that swirls in place over the North and South Poles, and is expected to ...