In the atmospheric layer above it, about 10 to 30 miles up, is the stratospheric polar vortex, where every winter a sunlight-starved Arctic spins up a mass of cold air that, ultimately, dissipates ...

Since the Ice Ages, the Polar Vortex has acted as a climatic gatekeeper. When breached, it unleashes freezing air into regions unprepared for it. This decade, those breaches are becoming more frequent ...

The polar vortex is Earth's frozen guardian—but that guardian is starting to fail. This video dives into the science behind ...

The polar vortex of ultra-cold air usually spins around the North Pole, but it sometimes plunges southward into the U.S., Europe and Asia.

Obviously this isn't the first polar vortex episode of the winter, but it looks to be the most severe." FILE - A person walks along the shore of ice covered Lake Michigan, Feb. 13, 2025, in Chicago.

From beloved Ann Arbor delis to underwhelming tourist traps, this sandwich tour across Michigan serves up the highs and lows ...

As we sweat away the summer, imagine walking out of 98-degree heat and into a 72-degree, climate-controlled ballpark to watch ...

Since I began my column over 10 years ago in IFR Magazine, I’ve strived to write as though you’re with me in the weather operations center. During most of my Air Force career, I worked as an aviation ...

A new study challenges the idea that climate change is behind the erratic wintertime behavior of the polar jet stream, the ...

Because Michigan is not a hot climate - and we don’t have frequent heat waves like we’re experiencing now - our bodies are not able to acclimate to the soaring temperatures. This puts us at higher ...

Perversely, the more we try to cool off, the more we heat the planet. Cooling accounts for a staggering one-fifth of global ...