Stratospheric polar vortex changes still trigger brutal U.S. winter cold snaps and extreme weather despite a warming climate.

Despite a warming climate, bone-chilling winter cold can grip parts of the U.S. In a study appearing in Science Advances, ...

A cold snap can prove deadly if it grips an area that rarely sees such severe chills, as when Winter Storm Uri froze Texas in 2021 and killed 246 people. The threat is amplified when there’s ...

Winter Storm Warning: 6 inches or more of snow and/or 1/4 inch+ of ice accumulation is expected. Winter Storm Watch: ... Pale or cold skin: Your skin may appear pale and feel cold to the touch, ...

The polar vortex, ultra-cold air spinning like a top 15 to 30 miles high, usually stays penned up above the North Pole. But sometimes it escapes or stretches down to the United States, Europe or Asia.

Ice is more damaging to plants. ... Some insects survive cold winter temperatures through diapause, which is a physiological state that’s much deeper than hibernation.

Cold doesn’t always mean snow and ice is a guarantee, ... Mother Nature is getting a jumpstart on a resolution to revive winter in the United States after a recent warm spell and last year’s ...

Winter brings black ice, freezing rain, ... Drivers of a certain age will remember their cars stalling on cold winter mornings. Today's computer-controlled, ...

3 bitter cold winter storms to bring heavy snow, ice. Washington, D.C., was set to see its biggest snowstorm of the season. By Emily Shapiro, Kenton Gewecke, Melissa Griffin, and Nadine El-Bawab.

On the other end of the lake, pilots are landing their planes on Alton Bay's ice runway.In Concord, it has been the coldest winter in 10 years, with an average temperature around 23 degrees.

Boots crunch across Pewaukee Lake's frozen surface as anglers across southeast Wisconsin embrace this winter's cold weather, as below-average temperatures have brought better ice conditions ...