A rare "daughter polar vortex" is set to plunge millions of Americans into freezing temperatures as a prolonged period of ...

The cold temperatures are coming from a not uncommon expansion in the Polar Vortex, which are counter-clockwise rotating air currents that typically hang over the Arctic.

The blast of cold that fueled record snowfall across Gulf Coast beaches last week was just the latest to transport frigid air that normally swirls above the North Pole to places much farther south ...

And if the polar vortex is to blame. First, a quick refresher on the polar vortex. The polar vortex is a region of very strong winds that form a circle around the North Pole. The vortex is located ...

Latest weather maps show that a 'polar vortex split' is about to hit the UK causing wintry chaos. It could being up to 11 ...

Alan O'Reilly from Carlow Weather has been reacting to reports from long-range forecasters predicting a significant ...

At the same time we go into a touch milder southwest flow, the polar vortex will still be churning away over northeast Canada. I don’t expect a full onslaught of the polar vortex to shift south ...

who reports for the Washington Post, wrote on X: "Around 30 states and nearly 50 million people could experience temperatures below minus 10 degrees next week as a lobe of the polar vortex moves in." ...

Europe may be in for another cold blast like the one that surprised forecasters and sent gas prices soaring last week, with the potential weakening of winds that keep frigid air confined to the Arctic ...

The big winter weather challenge has now come and gone in the form of last week’s polar vortex. The Eastern railroads got ...

Florida farmers will fill 3 million fewer boxes of oranges this growing season than they projected to pre-Hurricane Milton, ...

Cold outbreaks - including an episode in January 2014 that brought the coldest winter in the Midwest in decades - introduced much of the public to the polar vortex. The phrase refers to a ...