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A cold front will bring plunging temperatures and snow to the Northeast this week. Polar vortex disruptions, caused by Sudden Stratospheric Warming, drive extreme cold southward. Officials advise ...

Bitingly cold Arctic air keeps pummeling the U.S. with ruthless cold snaps—despite warming winters nationwide. A study explains why: the solution lies far above your head, in the upper atmosphere ...

While much of the eastern U.s. has been frozen by rounds of Arctic air and snow, the West has experienced weeks of unseasonable warmth, which has left many mountain ranges in a snow drought. A major ...

Weather forecasting has always involved uncertainty, but the patterns emerging in 2025 and 2026 have pushed that uncertainty into unfamiliar territory. Across the globe, three distinct atmospheric ...

Two newly identified patterns in the stratospheric polar vortex can send cold air over North America to cause extreme cold snaps, but the parts of the country that suffer differ between them. Those ...