Every year, the winter buzzwords start to fly before we set the Thanksgiving table. And who doesn't love feasting on the polar vortex? Everyone's favorite (or favorite to hate) phenomenon spins up in ...

You’d be forgiven for being skeptical of a cold, snowy December. Recent years have often brought late starts to winter. The last colder-than-normal December (using the modern 1991–2020 average, which ...

The arrival of winter weather across Tennessee is due to a shifting polar vortex sending Arctic air into the central and eastern United States, and this is only the first round of three. The first ...

This story has been edited to correct an error. Judah Cohen is affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Our old wintertime friend the polar vortex ...