April 5, 2025 - By Laura Ciasto and Amy Butler - After spending much of the season with super strong wind speeds, the polar ...

Spring may have technically sprung in the Northern Hemisphere, but the lingering impact of the collapsing polar vortex could ...

Devastating winter storms that led to deaths and power outages across the UK and Ireland were driven by an intense swirling ...

A sudden stratospheric warming event reversed the winds that make up the northern polar vortex on March 9. A new animation shows the vortex also moved away from the Arctic towards Europe.

Such a warming event can displace the polar vortex or split it in two, according to the Polar Vortex Blog. The polar vortex might not recover its strong west-to-east winds after the warming, which ...

Scientists say a "swirling polar vortex" miles above the Earth caused three deadly storms in the UK and Ireland, which brought severe flooding and record wind speeds. Four people lost their lives ...