A sudden stratospheric warming event reversed the winds that make up the northern polar vortex on March 9. A new animation ...

Warm conditions across much of Europe are forecast to give way to periods of unseasonably cool temperatures and stormy ...

When the polar vortex collapsed in the middle of March, the planet's weather patterns were redrawn. That could mean snow for ...

The polar vortex in the stratosphere broke up, which caused the movement of cold Arctic air towards southern latitudes, ...

Devastating winter storms that led to deaths and power outages across the UK and Ireland were driven by an intense swirling ...

Researchers say a spinning mass of cold air in the stratosphere above the Arctic in 2022 made it up to three times more ...

Spring may have technically sprung in the Northern Hemisphere, but the lingering impact of the collapsing polar vortex could ...

Powerful winter storms which led to deaths and power outages in the UK and Ireland were made more likely by an intense swirling vortex of winds miles above the Arctic, say scientists.

A team of researchers from the Met Office and the University of Leeds has pinpointed a new reason for winter storm clusters, ...

Scientists have revealed the cause of three huge storms that battered the UK in space of a week in 2022. An "intense swirling ...

A polar vortex collapse is expected over the next two weeks, causing extreme winter weather and travel disruption across North America. The weather phenomenon is expected to develop in mid-March, ...