US about to get 10th and chilliest polar vortex this winter. ... forces in the Arctic are combining to push the chilly air that usually stays near the North Pole not just into the United States, ...

Historically, the polar vortex hasn't always behaved the same way. In recent decades, scientists have observed intriguing patterns. Between 1979 and 1996, weak vortex events only happened about 3 ...

A new study challenges the idea that climate change is behind the erratic wintertime behavior of the polar jet stream, the ...

Rapid changes from wet to dry weather can create severe natural disasters. And these precipitation whiplash events are ...

Unless society stops pumping more greenhouse gases in the air, “we can expect multiple factors to worsen summer extremes,” a ...

Climate change is a huge crisis, and we need to explore every alternative we can to mitigate it. This includes nuclear power for reliable energy and the mining of lithium needed to make ...

Climate change has tripled the frequency of atmospheric wave events linked to extreme summer weather in the last 75 years and ...

Extreme heat is only becoming more common. In the United States, heat waves now occur three times as often as they did in the ...

AccuWeather Lead Long Range Forecaster and Senior Meteorologist Paul Pastelok said the average temperature in June is 64.6 ...