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.
A major winter blast is stirring up dangerous conditions across the U.S. central and southern states all the way to the East ...
Data from the 2019 polar vortex, which primarily affected the northern Midwest, showed a similar 20% increase in energy ...
Temperatures plunged into the teens and single digits in some spots, and the snow-dusted winds are driving the wind chill ...
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 ...
Texas is preparing for severe winter weather. An area stretching from Texas to Tennessee braced Wednesday for the possible ...
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 ...
The next round of bitter cold was set to envelop the southern U.S. on Tuesday, after the first significant winter storm of ...
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