It’s really, really cold again – as the US shivers through at least the eighth blast of air from the Arctic this winter. Here’s why it keeps happening.

As the National Weather Service explains, the polar vortex is an area of low pressure and cold air that exists over both of Earth’s poles 10 to 30 miles above the surface. The term vortex is used to ...

The polar jet stream and the polar vortex Miles above the Earth, the two bands of fast-moving air – the polar jet stream and the stratospheric polar vortex – sometimes tango together to ...

The polar vortex is an area of low pressure and cold air that encircles both the Earth’s polar regions ... a swimming pool by creating a whirlpool to cluster dirt in the center. If a vortex is strong, ...

The polar vortex is a “constant feature” that begins to develop sometime in September and persists through sometime in spring ...

After Feb dumped a wave of unconditionally severe winter weather in the US, March is about to unleash those conditions again due to the polar vortex collapse.

The term “polar vortex” usually refers to the gigantic ... the U.S., the world remains in an overall warming pattern. Earth's average overall temperature set yet another monthly heat record ...

The entire Earth on Monday was 0.8 degrees (0.45 degrees Celsius) warmer than the 1991 to 2020 average, according to the European climate service Copernicus. Computer forecast models say that the ...

This will be the 10th time this winter that the polar vortex stretches like a rubber band to send some of that big chill ...

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Advertisement Advertisement As the National Weather Service explains, the polar vortex is an area of low pressure and cold air that exists over both of Earth’s poles 10 to 30 miles above the ...

a senior scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center said. The polar vortex is area of fast-moving winds well above the Earth’s surface and the jet stream that circle the Arctic during the ...