polar vortex

A potentially record-breaking snowstorm is headed for the Northeast this weekend, and it could bring historic snowfall totals to the inner Northeast and New England.

The Pennsylvania groundhog known as America’s most famous weather forecaster — Punxsutawney Phil — did not see his shadow Saturday morning, forecasting an early spring.

Wednesday on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow pondered what Americans would do if Russia attacked the United States’ power grid during the polar vortex, an event which has resulted in plunging temperatures to historic lows. Maddow said, “Before that

(AP) — The body of a University of Iowa student has been found on the campus, and officials say they believe his death was weather related.

Michigan residents risk brief interruptions of natural gas service for heat amid bitterly cold weather if they don’t help reduce energy use.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Wind chills dipped as low as 56 degrees below zero in northern Illinois as bitter cold weather moved into Illinois.

Chicago has officially broken its coldest record for January 30 as a deadly arctic blast freezes large swaths of the Midwest.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The frigid arctic air blanketing parts of the Midwest is setting records in the Dakotas.

Power outages and natural gas interruptions were reported in parts of the Midwest as bitterly cold weather wreaks havoc across the region. 

Chicago railway employees are setting train tracks on fire to ensure trains can continue running as extreme cold freezes most of the Midwest.

Hollywood celebrities got seriously heated Tuesday after President Trump mocked global warming amid record low temperatures in the midwest.

Xcel Energy is urging customers to lower their thermostats to prevent natural gas shortages as a deep freeze enveloped the Midwest. 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A deadly arctic deep freeze enveloped the Midwest with record-breaking temperatures Wednesday, triggering widespread closures of schools and businesses, and prompting the U.S. Postal Service to take the rare step of suspending mail delivery to a wide swath of the region.

Swathes of Europe and North America have been hit by blizzards. They’re having snowball fights outside the Colosseum in Rome. Scotland is closed. The sheep outside my garden are buried in white stuff…

With storms pummeling Southern California, and California’s Northern Sierras receiving the third-highest early season precipitation in the last 50 years, state officials doubled the amount of water they expect to provide next year from the State Water Project.

Global temperatures are plummeting at a record rate – but if there’s one thing even more likely than a white Christmas it’s that the greenies will try to blame it on man-made climate change.