Frigid air that normally stays trapped in the Arctic has escaped, plunging deep into the United States for an extended visit ...

One British Airways flight travelling from the US to Portugal reached a ground speed of 1,344km/h as it caught a lift from ...

A strong polar vortex in the stratosphere has brought subzero temperatures to the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and deep into the ...

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 CONVERSATION) Atmospheric rivers – those long, narrow bands of water vapor in the sky that bring heavy rain and storms to the U.S. West Coast and many other regions – are shifting toward higher ...

It was a big moment for New Orleans' Lakefront Airport in October when Taylor Swift arrived on her gleaming $40 million ...

These severe cold events occur when the polar jet stream – the familiar jet stream of winter that runs along the boundary ...

Scientists are scrambling to understand how climate change may be interfering with the winds that carry our weather, with ...

How the Polar Vortex Can Bring Arctic Blasts to the U.S. Vast weather patterns can carry blasts of frigid air far from the ...

You’ve probably heard about the Polar Vortex in the news over the past few years and know that it is associated with very ...

It was a week of fire and ice. It began with millions of people across the U.S. shivering amid blizzard conditions and frigid ...