Since the Ice Ages, the Polar Vortex has acted as a climatic gatekeeper. When breached, it unleashes freezing air into ...

When the polar vortex stretches, North America feels the chill. New research reveals some of the stratospheric patterns ...

Spring and summer 2025 have been marked by a noticeable pattern of weather whiplash. The weather has consistently swung from ...

Strange things are happening in the sky above the Arctic — and they’re freezing the U.S. in unexpected ways. A new study reveals how shifting polar vortex patterns explain why parts of the country ...

Though hardy animals, Texas bats are seeing major upheavals to their environment thanks to man-made climate change.

The Polar Vortex,an atmospheric phenomenon that shapes our winter weather,has been gaining attention as it undergoes changes that could signal a shift in Earth's climate. This high-altitude, rotating ...

KERRVILLE, Texas—Families sifted through waterlogged debris Sunday and stepped inside empty cabins at Camp Mystic, an all-girls summer camp ripped apart by flash floods that washed homes off their ...

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 ...

Despite a warming climate, bone-chilling winter cold can grip parts of the U.S.—and this study explains why. Researchers found that two specific patterns in the polar vortex, a swirling mass of cold ...

This is called a Mesoscale Convective Vortex, or MCV. And what's key about this MCV developing where it did is that there was nothing else in the weather pattern around Texas to move it.