Early-season stratospheric warming events spark hype around frigid temperatures. Learn the myths and the science about the ...

There may be a disruption to the polar vortex due to an unusually early Sudden Stratospheric Warming event. Judah Cohen, a ...

The phrase "polar vortex" has captured public attention and is now often misused to describe short-term bouts of frigid ...

As we look toward mid-December into January, the door is opening for some potentially significant winter weather.

Over the next 10 days, scientists say, changes in the stratosphere will upend weather patterns and set the stage for a cold, snowy December across parts of the Northern Hemisphere.

It's been a warm autumn, so far. But the polar vortex is forecast to change unusually early, and that could impact your ...

Once every two years there is a disruption of the polar vortex. So you get very strong warming like tens of degrees Celsius in a few days, which is associated with a breakup or stretching or ...

We don’t want to alarm anyone, but the sun is broken. A section of the sun has left the surface and begun circulating around the top of the star as if it were a huge polar vortex, and it’s not exactly ...