This story has been edited to correct an error. Judah Cohen is affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Our old wintertime friend the polar vortex ...

Michigan is experiencing frigid temperatures and heavy snow due to a dip in the jet stream, not the polar vortex. The polar vortex is a large-scale cyclone of cold air that typically stays far north ...

Forecasters say that the polar vortex will usher in waves of frigid air across parts of the U.S. through January. The "more active polar vortex will drive colder air and snow across the central and ...

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High above the Arctic, scientists are tracking a major change in the atmosphere this January, an event similar to what triggered the deadly 2021 Texas freeze. That disaster killed more than 200 people ...

Above: A Von Karman vortex street downwind of the Canary Island chain in the eastern Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa on Feb. 27, 2015. Image credit: NASA Worldview. Editor's note: Meteorologist ...

A fresh blast of Arctic air is poised to spill across a wide swath of the United States, and the latest polar vortex map makes clear which regions are most exposed. Forecast models show a sharp ...

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