While jet streams are air patterns, the Gulf Stream is an ocean pattern that also has an impact on weather.

Research has found that rising temperatures in the Arctic are weakening weather systems that normally trap the cold around ...

Ranked dead last, or perhaps not mentioned at all, would probably be the only state that sits partly within the Arctic Circle ...

A polar vortex is about to impact the United States and deliver what the National Weather Service has described as “the coldest air of the season to date.” ...

A mass of air called the polar vortex has escaped the Arctic and plunged southward. Some scientists see the fingerprints of ...

Understanding the Polar Vortex The polar vortex is like a massive whirlpool of frigid air moving around our planet's poles.

As the Arctic rapidly warms, the temperature difference between the polar region and lower latitudes decreases, which weakens ...

Scientists say a warming planet may have been responsible for a winter storm that dropped 10 inches of snow on Northwest ...

In Earth's upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 275 miles (442 km) ...

The planes didn’t break the sound barrier because it was the air moving them so quickly, not their engines. The report compared it to someone walking on a moving walkway at an airport – the person is ...

The cold temperatures are coming from a not uncommon expansion in the Polar Vortex, which are counter-clockwise rotating air ...