Several days with temperatures of 10-20 degrees below the historical average could be dangerous to plants and ruin outdoor ...

A sudden stratospheric warming event reversed the winds that make up the northern polar vortex on March 9. A new animation ...

The cause of the week-long deep freeze? A polar vortex collapse. Now, meteorologists are calling for another collapse in the middle of March, one that could plunge the U.S., Canada, and parts of ...

Warm conditions across much of Europe are forecast to give way to periods of unseasonably cool temperatures and stormy ...

There is a sudden warming about to happen high up in the atmosphere. This warming will affect the Polar Vortex. The Polar Vortex is a fast-spinning circular motion usually located about 50,000 ...

February 2022 was also characterized by an extremely strong stratospheric polar vortex—a large spinning mass of cold air in ...

There’s also an 80% chance that a polar vortex could collapse later this month, forecasters said, bringing wintry conditions. Met Office Deputy Chief Meteorologist Chris Bulmer said ...

The Met Office says the UK is highly likely to see a polar vortex collapse in March - the weather phenomenon responsible for 2018’s ‘Beast from the East’. A sudden stratospheric warming (SSW ...

The polar vortex is a part of Earth's atmosphere that is found over the North Pole. Strong winds typically keep the vortex locked in place, but periodically, changes in the weather can cause the ...

The SSW is linked to Polar Vortex Collapse - and is the rare system that was responsible for the Beast from the East in 2018. Seven years ago an SSW created weather that left the UK snowed in for ...

Powerful winter storms which led to deaths and power outages in the UK and Ireland were made more likely by an intense swirling vortex of winds miles above the Arctic, say scientists.