which can reach 560 mph (900 kph), at the planet's south pole and which are consistent with the existence of a polar vortex there. However, Voyager 2 did not get a view of the planet's north pole ...

A major disruption to the Arctic polar vortex has bumped the ring of wind that circles the North Pole off its perch and towards Europe, a new animation shows. The migration could trigger colder ...

which can reach 560 mph (900 kph), at the planet's south pole and which are consistent with the existence of a polar vortex there. However, Voyager 2 did not get a view of the planet's north pole ...

The term “polar vortex” might conjure images of mythical icy storms swirling through the North Pole but in reality it’s a ...

Inside a disruption of the polar vortex and the chance it happens There are actually two polar vortexes over the North Pole at any given time — a meandering, wavy one in the troposphere ...

The polar vortex is like a giant, swirling pool of super-cold air in the upper atmosphere over the North Pole. Imagine it like a children's spinning top. When the top is spinning fast and steady ...

Much of the country will be hit with extreme low temperatures over the next week as a polar vortex sends cold air down from the North Pole. Real feel temperatures throughout the northeast ...

The polar vortex – everyone's favorite wintertime whipping boy – is actually a gigantic, circular area of cold air high up in the atmosphere that typically spins over the North Pole (as its ...

Even as Arctic air is polar - coming from the north pole - the polar vortex lives in the stratosphere, about 10 to 30 miles above the Earth's surface. Usually every other year, sometimes once a ...