With Monday’s snowfall still piled high on lawns and driveways, much of the Mid-Atlantic looks like the inside of a freezer. Thanks to the polar vortex, it feels like one, too. Why is it so cold? The ...

The blast is courtesy of our old wintertime foe the polar vortex, said Weather Trader meteorologist Ryan Maue on X, while the source of the cold comes all the way from such miserably figid spots such ...

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When there's cold weather in Florida, "frozen iguanas" comes up. That's when the invasive species fall from trees or end up on sidewalks stunned from the cold. When temperatures hit below freezing, ...

As climate change heats up the planet, winters are warming faster than summers. But on days when the temperature tumbles below freezing, it leaves many people wondering, “If the Earth is getting ...

THE HECK IT’S SO COLD OUTSIDE, HERE IS WHY. A HUGE DIP IN THE JET STREAM. THE POLAR VORTEX IS BASICALLY ENVELOPED THE EASTERN TWO THIRDS OF THE UNITED STATES WITH IMPRESSIVELY COLD AIR. WITH ...

Yukon has been grappling with an extreme cold weather system, with some communities experiencing record-breaking lows of –50 C. Meteorologists expect it to keep steady until next week, when ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Tuesday was a cold morning across West Virginia, but it wasn’t a record breaker. Officials with the National Weather Service in Charleston said Elkins came closest to breaking the ...

The polar vortex has brought air so incredibly cold it may set low-temperature records. Will it ever be warm again? Updated Jan. 31 at 9:48 a.m. ET How cold is it in the Upper Midwest today? It's so ...

Fifty years ago a fascinating weather anomaly blanketed the United States in arctic, snowy weather and temporarily spawned fears of a new ice age. Call it the "snowy '70s." It was so wintry that the ...