Don’t “put a fork into winter” just yet, warns a climate scientist, despite a little taste of spring this and next week after the deadly cold outbreak. Round 2 of winter could be on the horizon. “As ...
Despite a warming climate, bone-chilling winter cold can grip parts of the U.S. In a study appearing in Science Advances, researchers found that two specific patterns in the polar vortex, a swirling ...
The polar vortex, a high-altitude ring of westerly winds that usually keeps Arctic air locked near the pole, is showing signs of unusual weakening. If that circulation falters or collapses, the result ...