This comes after record low temperatures were already set on Tuesday in New England. The Polar Vortex is a large, persistent area of low pressure and cold air near the poles and sits about 10-30 miles ...

Ready for some serious cold? The planet's most extreme cold air will be barreling into the central and eastern United States this coming weekend "like a wrecking ball," said Weather Trader ...

A disruptive polar vortex is set to usher in three successive waves of Arctic air across the central and eastern United States through mid-December, bringing dangerously low temperatures and the ...

As one blast of Arctic air pushes out to sea, already a new surge of cold air, driven by a breakdown of the polar vortex, is likely to expand from central Canada and through the midwestern and eastern ...

A shifting polar vortex is expected to bring three waves of Arctic air to the central and eastern U.S. Tennessee is forecast to experience winter weather, including a mix of snow and ice, in early ...

The polar vortex has broken, and severe temperatures are set to dominate most of the country in the coming days. Temperatures in the 10s are forecast for much of the Northeast, and subzero ...

If you’ve ever wondered why winter sometimes flips from mild to brutally cold, the answer might be hiding 20 miles above your head. That’s where a rare atmospheric phenomenon called sudden ...

New national temperature outlooks show that while large portions of the country are headed toward below-normal temperatures in early December, Georgia is among the few regions expected to run warmer ...

A Polar Vortex brought temperatures so cold in January 2014 that it froze Niagara Falls. Signals of a rare sudden stratospheric warming in the next two weeks have some forecasting an imminent Arctic ...

In yet another sign that winter weather is either here or will be soon, the dreaded polar vortex is making news yet again. Its potential arrival in the United States over the next few weeks is cause ...

High above the North Pole, in a slice of atmosphere rarely noticed and even less understood, a transformation is underway. Over the next 10 days, changes in the stratosphere will upend weather ...