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

This means the air at the poles gets extremely cold and dense ... is known as a polar vortex. This story was updated to fix a typo. CONTRIBUTING Anthony Robledo SOURCE NOAA, Climate.gov, NASA ...

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Abnormal weather events and severe winter storms could be caused by a disrupted polar vortex. Find out here how the polar ...

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