The polar vortex: What to know about the weather feature responsible for the arctic blast
The vortex is essentially an area of low pressure in the upper layers of the atmosphere over the polar region. This vortex consists of powerful westerly winds in the stratosphere, about 10 to 30 miles about the North Pole, according to Climate.gov.
As the cold front moved southward Tuesday, it prompted a cold weather advisory for the Gulf Coast and pushed temperatures ...
Temperatures plunged into the teens and single digits in some spots, and the snow-dusted winds are driving the wind chill ...
An area stretching from Texas to Tennessee is bracing for the expected arrival of freezing rain and snow, as some other parts ...
Data from the 2019 polar vortex, which primarily affected the northern Midwest, showed a similar 20% increase in energy ...
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — People across the country and the Rochester area are feeling the impact of the polar vortex. While the polar vortex typically stays in the Arctic, its jet stream could weaken in the ...
It's a term you hear every couple of winters, when we get stuck in the coldest of cold patterns – polar vortex. But what exactly is it?
A huge swath of the U.S. was blasted with ice, snow and wind on Monday as the polar vortex that dipped south over the weekend ...
The United States continued to freeze through a polar vortex that brought rare cold to the southern United States and chances ...
The images, captured on January 6 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA’s Aqua ...
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