There are more ways than we knew for the stratospheric polar vortex to get disrupted, shooting cold air southwards across ...

Despite a warming climate, bone-chilling winter cold can grip parts of the U.S. In a study appearing in Science Advances, ...

The mechanism involves atmospheric waves that bounce between the upper atmosphere and ground level, amplifying weather ...

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 United States could be headed for some extreme weather this winter. That’s the early prediction from Severe Weather Europe, a website that tracks weather patterns around the globe. Three factors ...

Utah's Bureau of Land Management released a video on Monday (July 14) which it said showed a fire vortex forming from the Deer Creek wildfire outside of La Sal in the western U.S. state.

With a heat wave hitting Delaware, governments and nonprofits are offering cooling centers for those without access to air-conditioning.

Trump celebrates Alligator Alcatraz grand opening, as immigration officials continue the search for escaped detainees from New Jersey. What to know ...

KERRVILLE, Texas—Families sifted through waterlogged debris Sunday and stepped inside empty cabins at Camp Mystic, an all-girls summer camp ripped apart by flash floods that washed homes off their ...