Despite a warming climate, bone-chilling winter cold can grip parts of the U.S. In a study appearing in Science Advances, researchers found that two specific patterns in the polar vortex, a swirling ...
The United States has been at the epicenter of the planet’s most unusually cold conditions early in 2025. The polar vortex is ...
Bitingly cold Arctic air keeps pummeling the U.S. with ruthless cold snaps—despite warming winters nationwide. A study explains why: the solution lies far above your head, in the upper atmosphere ...
Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...
Even in a warming climate, brutal cold snaps still hammer parts of the U.S., and a new study uncovers why. High above the Arctic, two distinct polar vortex patterns — both distorted and displaced — ...
An Arctic blast could bring freezing temperatures and heavy snow to Kentucky around Thanksgiving weekend. A "sudden stratospheric warming" event may disrupt the polar vortex, potentially causing ...
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