A severe winter storm that brought crippling freezing rain, sleet and snow to a large part of the U.S. in late January 2026 left a mess in states from New Mexico to New England. Hundreds of thousands ...

A rare extension of the Polar Vortex core is currently disrupting the seasonal transition across the Northern Hemisphere. As ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The polar vortex collapse forecast brings the return of winter the Northeast, with brutal cold air returning to New Jersey amid a ...

Greetings from Ice Planet Hoth. Indeed, much of the eastern United States resembles the fictional frozen Star Wars world, and now folks there are now enduring some of the worst cold on Earth: "The ...

The stratospheric polar vortex is entering its seasonal collapse. But that doesn’t mean calm weather is coming. What's ...

Could early February's blast of cold in the northeastern United States be one of the last appearances of our wintertime foe, the polar vortex? While forecasters can't yet say that for sure, a warmer ...

The majority of the United States will experience chilling temperatures due to a blast of arctic air from Canada. The Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Southern U.S. are expected to see below-freezing ...

The sudden blast may have come as a shock to many Americans after a mostly mild start to winter, but that warmth may have partly contributed to the ferocity of the storm. As atmospheric and climate ...