A warming Arctic can stretch the polar vortex, a high-altitude air ribbon, one says. The “wobble” can disrupt the jet stream, causing extreme cold in the East. By Eric Niiler If the planet is getting ...
This year's relentless winter in the East is about to unleash its most savage cold outbreak yet. "A brutally cold weekend awaits more than 100 million people in the northeastern quarter of the nation ...
Special Olympics Indiana’s 2026 Polar Plunge season continues Feb. 14 at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, inviting students and area residents to Be Bold and Get Cold for a great cause. Now in ...
Greetings from Ice Planet Hoth. Indeed, much of the eastern United States resembles the fictional frozen Star Wars world, and now folks there are now enduring some of the worst cold on Earth: "The ...
The 35th annual Lewes Polar Bear Plunge has been postponed due to a forecast of extreme cold, strong winds, snow, and dangerous surf, Special Olympics Delaware has announced. Originally set for this ...
DONALDSON WALKS US THROUGH THE CHANGES BEING MADE TO PLUNGE WEEK. WE’RE CONVINCED THAT WE WILL BE READY TO BRING PEOPLE IN THEN IT’S A MATTER OF THE CONDITIONS ON THE DAY OF THE PLUNGE. THIS IS THE ...
Satellite image of a bomb cyclone. It’s winter in the Northern Hemisphere. We are actually having a proper one this year. Irrespective of what is going on with our climate, it is supposed to be cold ...
I'm a reformed winter-hater. I grew up in a beach town in the U.S. where summer reigned supreme. And I, like so many others, used to bemoan the changing seasons as the nights got longer and the ...
A security camera captured Kallu, a 3-year-old polar bear at the St. Louis Zoo, rolling in fresh snow as a winter storm hit Missouri. The zoo closed Monday because of snow and extreme cold.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images The sudden blast may come as a shock to many Americans after a mostly mild start ...
A severe winter storm that brought crippling freezing rain, sleet and snow to a large part of the U.S. in late January 2026 left a mess in states from New Mexico to New England. Hundreds of thousands ...