It's like "bomb cyclone" or "firenado." It seems like the sort of phenomenon that would be responsible for the record-breaking blast of cold, snow and wintry conditions that reached all the way to the ...

That owes to a bomb cyclone and several atmospheric ... The path of the polar jet was nudged southward by lobes of the polar vortex that dipped into the United States, providing ample cold air.

The same is true of many of the names that sound new to non-meteorologists. Take “bomb cyclone”: a heavy, rapid-forming winter storm caused when a cold, northern front collides with a warm southern ...

two bands of fast-moving air – the polar jet stream and the stratospheric polar vortex – sometimes tango together to influence weather in the northern hemisphere. As the Arctic continues ...

The bitter weather—tied to an Arctic "polar vortex" blast—is expected to bring nighttime lows as cold as minus 23 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 31 degrees Celsius) over the weekend for some of the ...

Miles above the Earth, two bands of fast-moving air – the polar jet stream and the stratospheric polar vortex – sometimes tango together to influence weather in the northern hemisphere. As the Arctic ...

Answers as to why these strange temperatures and weather events are prevalent may be found in the polar vortex. The U.S. National Weather Service says that "vortex" refers to the counter-clockwise ...

But during the winter, it is joined by a second atmospheric phenomenon dubbed the polar vortex. This swirl of frigid air, located more than 10 miles above Earth’s surface, strengthens each year ...