Three separate rounds of Arctic air have already swept across the central and eastern United States through mid-December, ...

With the Northern Hemisphere well into the winter months, it may seem like temperatures are cold enough already. However, a deep freeze, thanks to the polar vortex dipping down from Siberia, is ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP)-- Tri-State Area residents were not the only ones suffering through a bitter blast this weekend, and some areas have seen conditions far more severe. At least 16 deaths were ...

The week, the majority of the United States will experience a deep freeze thanks to a Polar Vortex, which will bring a wave of cold air that normally spins in the atmosphere over the North Pole down ...

When the polar vortex stumbles, the weather at ground level can pivot from mild to brutal in a matter of days. A circulation ...

The big freeze resulting from an Arctic weather phenomenon known as the polar vortex has affected 187 million Americans — more than half the country's population. It was loosening its grip Wednesday, ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from technology/environment. Followed categories will be added to My News. The image, resembling a woman’s breasts, has led to jokes it’s “proof the Earth is not flat” ...

Move over, haboob. See you next summer, heat dome. The weather phrase hogging all the attention now is "polar vortex." Twenty-six states are under wind-chill warnings or watches, and the polar vortex ...

Over the past year or so, I’ve written a few times on how the “polar vortex”—actually, deep meanders or excursions in the usually stable west-to-east direction of the polar cyclonic air stream—may be ...

In case you haven’t noticed, a chunk of the polar vortex has arrived. Fortunately, it is not here to stay. As eerie as it sounds, there is no need to dramatize the polar vortex. It is not new. We have ...

A major snowstorm that lashed parts of the Midwest on Monday will give way to record-smashing cold this week as a powerful polar vortex drives a deep freeze across the eastern half of the nation, ...