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NASA satellite watches January's polar vortex | Space photo of the day for Feb. 4, 2026
A late January 2026 winter storm left more than snow and ice in its wake.
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How Earth's atmosphere and climate come together to create a polar vortex
To understand what Americans are experiencing with this winter blast, we need to look more than 20 miles above the surface of ...
The sudden blast may come as a shock to many Americans after a mostly mild start to winter, but that warmth may be partly ...
A rare and exceptionally early disruption of the polar vortex is sending brutally cold air across much of the United States, marking one of the earliest notable polar vortex disruptions observed since ...
Powerful winter storms which led to deaths and power outages in the UK and Ireland were made more likely by an intense swirling vortex of winds miles above the Arctic, say scientists. Powerful winter ...
What the swirling storms on alien worlds can tell us about the climate on Earth. Damond Benningfield A somewhat alarming new phrase entered the American lexicon when parts of the United States were ...
This striking satellite photo shows rippling ribbons of ethereal ice swirling like turbulent clouds on the surface of Lake Michigan, alongside a snow-covered Chicago. The wintery scene occurred during ...
A sudden stratospheric warming event reversed the winds that make up the northern polar vortex on March 9. A new animation shows the vortex also moved away from the Arctic towards Europe. When you ...
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