The atmosphere is a complicated place. Warm temperatures in one spot can contribute to brutally cold storms somewhere else.

The North Pole is surrounded by a massive circular upper-air weather phenomenon in the Arctic called the polar vortex. It is ...

An unusually brutal winter storm is set to pummel more than 160 million Americans from Friday, as a stretched "polar vortex" sends a devastating blast of Arctic air, bringing heavy snows and freezing ...

Starting Thursday, dangerously frigid air from Siberia and the North Pole is forecast to plunge the Great Lakes region into ...

Meteorologists warn that a stretched polar vortex could bring severe winter weather to much of the United States ...

Jan. 2 (UPI) --A Washington city may have broken a Guinness World Record by gathering nearly 5,000 people to take a "polar bear dip" into frigid water at the same time. The Birch Bay Chamber of ...

The new year arrived windy and freezing in Brooklyn, but bone-chilling weather couldn’t stop tradition as thousands of people welcomed 2026 at the Coney Island Polar Bear Plunge. After a few years of ...

BIRCH BAY, Wash. — Thousands of people in Birch Bay are braving the cold on Thursday and trying to set a world record. The Birch Bay Chamber of Commerce, Blaine Birch Bay Park and Recreation District ...

OF THEM ABOUT THIS TRADITION. FOR SOME, IT’S THE ONLY WAY TO RING IN THE NEW YEAR. JUMPING INTO THE MONONGAHELA RIVER FOR THE POLAR PLUNGE. AND REALLY, SOME HAVE BEEN DOING IT FOR YEARS. OTHERS, IT’S ...

Out with the old, in with the cold! Thousands of thrill-seekers brrr-aved frigid 27-degree weather to kick off the New Year with an icy splash at Coney Island’s annual polar plunge Thursday. Some ...

PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Polar Bear Club hosted its annual plunge into the Monongahela River Thursday morning to ring in the new year. All donations go toward supplying jackets for people in need. ...

It’s 11 a.m. on the first morning of 2026 in Birch Bay, Washington. There’s a sharp chill in the air. Driving down Birch Bay Drive, sporadic groups of people wrapped in towels, robes and sweatshirt ...