High above the North Pole, in a slice of atmosphere rarely noticed and even less understood, a transformation is underway. Over the next 10 days, changes in the stratosphere will upend weather ...

The polar vortex is weakening, which means New England is in for a colder than usual December, with episodic cold snaps. Every year around this time, that phrase — “polar vortex” — starts to buzz ...

This swirling mass of air above the Arctic can grow and bend, pushing blasts of frigid air south. Sea smoke, the result of extremely cold air blowing over warmer water, rises from Lake Michigan in ...

In an early sign of the winter weather that's coming, the dreaded polar vortex is making news yet again. The polar vortex is "ramping up from its summer slumber," said meteorologist Judah Cohen in an ...

Dreading the present, thirty-one animators entered the jungle on their imagination to honor José Eustasio Rivera’s Novel, THE VORTEX, published in 1924. Musicians, producers, and composers joined in ...

What is the polar vortex? It’s a wintertime mainstay capable of flooding Canada with some of the world’s coldest air It’s a pattern responsible for holding back the coldest temperatures on the planet.