WASHINGTON (AP) — The polar vortex hit its peak across much of America on Wednesday, with an icy grip that made Arctic ...

"An Arctic air mass is expected to plunge into the Central U.S. this week, with high confidence for widespread, ...

Month-to-date temperature analysis shows that February 2025 has been the coldest in the U.S. has seen in 15 years. In 2010, the temperature anomaly was 4.1° below average. Currently, February's ...

Meteorologists warn that the coldest burst of Arctic air this season is coming to put an icy and prolonged exclamation point ...

How Alaska’s cold keeps ending up in the Lower 48 A few atmospheric factors — including the polar vortex — have come together to make the US the epicenter of cold this winter. One is a ...

The polar vortex is not synonymous with cold snaps, but when it slides toward the United States, the polar jet stream can ...

The polar vortex, as explained by the National Weather Service, is a large area of low pressure and cold air that encircles ...

Harsh weather moved west as a polar vortex was expected to grip the Rockies and the northern Plains after winter storms pummeled the eastern U.S. over the weekend, killing at least 10 people, ...

According to the Severe Weather Europe website—an online resource of global weather forecasts—a mass of cold air, spurred by the polar vortex, has been forecast to move over Canada and the northern ...

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 ...