While this polar vortex event will not affect Northern California, its presence in the central and eastern U.S. will have an impact on the weather pattern for the West Coast. What is the polar vortex?

Here in Southern California, residents are grappling with what it means to be back in an official drought and wondering why it is so hot — in January. A second polar vortex is bearing down on ...

“Polar vortex” became a weather buzzword back in 2014, but it’s not the strong polar vortex that brings Arctic cold down into southern latitudes of the continental U.S. It’s the unstable ...

Bomb cyclone, atmospheric river, polar vortex: How our weather terminology has grown with recent wild storms Satellite image shows a weather pattern off the West Coast on Wednesday. (NOAA) ...

A study due to be published soon concludes that there is a link between climate change and both the ongoing drought in California and this winter’s polar vortex. The Associated Press reported ...

From a brutal polar vortex that froze much of the Midwest and East Coast in January to Hurricane Dorian that killed dozens in the Bahamas in September, Mother Nature dealt Americans a wild and ...

These polar vortex stretches are happening more frequently as the world — and especially the Arctic — warms, a 2021 paper published in the journal Science, also co-authored by Cohen, demonstrated.

(Watch the forecast from Dec. 30 at 4 p.m. in the video player above.) While this polar vortex event will not affect Northern California, its presence in the central and eastern U.S. will have an ...