See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A powerful polar vortex is set to grip much of the United States next ...

The snow has melted, the air is warm, and the first day of spring 2026 is near, but don't pull out the swimsuit just yet, because "false spring" in New York will be disrupted by the polar vortex split ...

This year's relentless winter weather is about to unleash its most savage cold outbreak yet. "A brutally cold weekend awaits more than 100 million people in the Northeastern quarter of the nation as ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Polar Vortex? Not quite, but Chicago weather is on pace for a cool down next week. "The jet stream will be buckling unusually far south for mid-July, allowing a cross polar flow of ...

Could early February's blast of cold in the northeastern United States be one of the last appearances of our wintertime foe, the polar vortex? While forecasters can't yet say that for sure, a warmer ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Meteorologists are raising alarms as Florida braces for an unusual ...

The stratospheric polar vortex, the winter engine that traps Arctic cold high above the North Pole, is entering its seasonal collapse. What’s left is the lower-level polar vortex core, lingering over ...

Ontario and Quebec are back in the depths of polar vortex-generated, bone-chilling cold today, with temperatures plunging to the –20 C range in Ottawa and Toronto. Temperatures on Tuesday ranged from ...

The brutal polar air that has made the Midwest shiver over the past few days spread to the East and the Deep South on Tuesday, shattering records that in some cases had stood for more than a century.