Despite a warming climate, bone-chilling winter cold can grip parts of the U.S. In a study appearing in Science Advances, ...

The condition of the polar vortex influences everyday weather around the globe. Scientist issue warning about concerning ...

In A Nutshell A major study of 42 years of data shows severe winter storms have shifted northwest, away from the traditional ...

Three factors are combining to increase the likelihood of a weaker polar vortex this winter, the website reports. And a ...

Blasts of Arctic air are poised to bring below-average temperatures to much of the central and eastern U.S. throughout the first half of January. Here's what to expect and how to prepare.

A new study challenges the idea that climate change is behind the erratic wintertime behavior of the polar jet stream, the ...

As for precipitation, he said, "so far this winter, the patterns seen over the U.S., including drier than average conditions across the southern tier, and wetter than average conditions in the ...

For several months in winter, the Arctic is in perpetual darkness, or polar night. "It's really a black and white world, where you see some gray shades of things.

A research team from the Alfred Wegener Institute has for the first time gained insights into a current in the Barents Sea which affects Arctic sea ice In the last few decades, the Arctic sea ice has ...

An arctic air mass settled over New York City and much of the country Sunday evening, bringing a deep freeze and the chance of more snow than the city has seen in three years.

In the cold of the Norwegian Arctic, meteorologist Trond Robertsen manually recorded precipitation levels for over two ...