The polar vortex is a low-pressure system of cold air that swirls above Earth’s poles. There’s one over the South Pole in Antarctica – but for this story, we’ll be focusing on the one ...

Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable Along the East Coast, this visit by the polar vortex will be like a houseguest who comes into your home, leaves stuff everywhere, turns the place ...

This is due to what meteorologists call the “polar vortex”, a jet stream of extremely ... When people talk about Antarctica, they usually think of penguins, whales and seals.

These chemicals accumulate inside the strong polar vortex that develops over the Antarctic every winter where they remain chemically inactive in the darkness. Temperatures in the vortex can fall ...

The notorious Polar Vortex concentrates chemicals that eat ... Penguins and seals in Antarctica are getting scorched. Without sufficient ozone to shield them, these animals face sunburns and ...

This year the polar vortex has been extremely powerful and ... The better-known ozone hole is above the Antarctic at the South Pole and occurs during the austral spring (July to September) when ...

Accuweather Senior Meteorologist Paul Pastelok says the March polar vortex disruption is one of the largest meteorologists have seen in a long time. A polar vortex is a large area of low pressure ...

Then the polar bear appears. She’s big, maybe 500 pounds, trailed by a single cub. They’ve just jumped into a lead—a long fissure of open water in the frozen sea. In seconds they’re out of ...

The hole in the Antarctic ozone layer has been getting ... when “sudden break-ups of the polar vortex” led to significantly smaller ozone holes, Kessenich added.