It's a term you hear every couple of winters, when we get stuck in the coldest of cold patterns – polar vortex. But what exactly is it and how does it impact our weather? The polar vortex is ...

Get in touch with Chloe Mayer by emailing c.mayer@newsweek.com Satellites orbiting the Earth have captured the effects of a "polar vortex" on camera, as swathes of the U.S. are gripped by Arctic ...

Researchers have been trying to understand the effect of climate change on the intensity or frequency of colder temperatures due to the polar vortex. Some data suggests that climate change may be ...