Since the Ice Ages, the Polar Vortex has acted as a climatic gatekeeper. When breached, it unleashes freezing air into regions unprepared for it. This decade, those breaches are becoming more frequent ...

The National Weather Service issued winter storm warnings for Kansas and Missouri, where blizzard conditions brought wind gusts of up to 45 mph. The warnings extended to New Jersey into early Tuesday.

After last month’s polar vortex collapse, a second one is expected to unleash freezing conditions across North America. With the winter weather phenomenon predictions eyeing a mid-March comeback ...

Polar vortex to bring frigid temperatures, snow and ice to millions of Americans About 60 million people are forecast to experience subzero temperatures. The polar vortex may also fuel yet another ...

By Ben Noll, The Washington Post The polar vortex is coming back. After a half-month hiatus, frigid air will again surge across the United States beginning this weekend through next week, as the ...

Polar vortex is not a synonym for “cold snap,” according to the Polar Vortex Blog at Climate.gov, and it’s not the only weather pattern to blame for blasts of cold air.

NEW YORK (PIX11) – Arctic air has brought chilling temperatures as low as 12 degrees to New York City — but are we in a polar vortex? A polar vortex settled over New York City and New Jersey ...

More than 500 flights were delayed or canceled at Denver International Airport on Monday as a polar vortex continued to freeze Colorado. There were 529 delayed and 28 canceled flights as of 4:15 p ...

An arctic air mass blanketed New York City on Sunday night, dumping several inches of snow and ushering in a deep freeze that grounded flights at airports across the city and New Jersey, and ...

Forecasters at the New York office of the Weather Service said heavy snow was falling across parts of the Lower Hudson Valley and Northern New Jersey and warned that some areas could receive one ...

A brutal polar vortex is set to rock the Big Apple beginning on Sunday and bringing life-threatening, single-digit temperatures and the most snow the city has seen in four years.