It's a term you hear every couple of winters, when we get stuck in the coldest of cold patterns – polar vortex. But what exactly is it and how does it impact our weather? The polar vortex is ...
MID-MICHIGAN (WJRT) - The dreaded polar vortex may have Mid-Michigan feeling ... The Storm Tracker 12 Weather Team has declared Alert Days for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday due to the potential ...
The vortex is located in the stratosphere, the layer above the troposphere (the troposphere is where we live and most weather occurs). In the winter, the polar vortex helps keep frigid ...
You’ve probably heard about the Polar Vortex in the news over the past few years and know it is associated with very cold weather, but what exactly is it and what causes it? Before we chip away ...
This shift is encouraging the erratic weather patterns high in the atmosphere ... in decades — introduced much of the public to the polar vortex. The phrase refers to a naturally occurring ...
A dangerous and potentially life-threatening stretch of cold weather has much of the U.S. on alert as a lobe of the polar vortex invades the nation and sends temperatures tumbling to levels not ...
A blast of arctic air from Canada has brought the season's coldest weather to most of the United States. The system, known as a polar vortex, is forecast to bring subzero temperatures to the ...
It's a normal pattern that's stronger in the winter and usually tends to keep the coldest weather bottled up near the north pole when it is "strong." If the polar vortex weakens or even splits ...
The warm push would hold the polar vortex in check and keep the true Arctic air even farther north. We still have plenty of winter weather to go in Michigan. However, we probably won’t revisit ...
During winter, the polar vortex at the North Pole can loosen up and expand, sending cold air south and causing outbreaks of chilling cold weather into the U.S. The worst of the cold temperatures ...
This winter, with record snow in New Orleans and drought and destructive wildfires in Southern California, has not been normal.