Vortexes are physical phenomena found throughout nature, including tornados and air turbulence, which is a vortex buildup process (Figure 1). Investigators have realized that turbulence is not a ...

A highly unusual disruption of the polar vortex is taking shape in the upper atmosphere this November, raising the odds of a more volatile and wintry pattern as the season ramps up. Instead of the ...

A Polar Vortex brought temperatures so cold in January 2014 that it froze Niagara Falls. Signals of a rare sudden stratospheric warming in the next two weeks have some forecasting an imminent Arctic ...