There are more ways than we knew for the stratospheric polar vortex to get disrupted, shooting cold air southwards across ...

Thanks to A.I., companies like WindBorne hope to usher in a golden age of forecasting. But they rely in part on government ...

Stratospheric polar vortex changes still trigger brutal U.S. winter cold snaps and extreme weather despite a warming climate.

This winter, with record snow in New Orleans and drought and destructive wildfires in Southern California, has not been normal.

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.

The polar vortex, as explained by the National Weather Service, is a large area of low pressure and cold air that encircles the Earth’s poles. Even though it’s often framed in the media as a weather ...

The National Weather Service has issued extreme cold warnings for millions of Americans from the Canadian border to Texas. CBS News correspondent Nicole Valdes reports on the historic low ...

The long polar air outbreak peaked Wednesday in terms of intensity and breadth of the United States, said National Weather Service meteorologist Andrew Orrison of the Weather Prediction Center.