It’s been warmer in Alaska than in three dozen other states. If someone asked you, “Where can I go in the United States to ...

Florida farmers will fill 3 million fewer boxes of oranges this growing season than they projected to pre-Hurricane Milton, ...

Scientists say a warming planet may have been responsible for a winter storm that dropped 10 inches of snow on Northwest ...

Surely Florida would be high on the list ... Elsewhere, a displaced lobe of the polar vortex has brought an unrelenting chill to large parts of the contiguous United States.

Overall, not surprisingly, folks wanting an early spring better head south, which is already seeing springlike signs.

While jet streams are air patterns, the Gulf Stream is an ocean pattern that also has an impact on weather.

And if the polar vortex is to blame. First, a quick refresher on the polar vortex. The polar vortex is a region of very strong winds that form a circle around the North Pole. The vortex is located ...

The blast of cold that fueled record snowfall across Gulf Coast beaches last week was just the latest to transport frigid air that normally swirls above the North Pole to places much farther south ...

You also notice the end of the forecast indicates the polar vortex may be making another swipe at Michigan in mid-February. At that time of year it can still be a very cold outbreak. However it ...

Cold outbreaks - including an episode in January 2014 that brought the coldest winter in the Midwest in decades - introduced much of the public to the polar vortex. The phrase refers to a ...