Any sort of wind along with the bitter cold will make for frostbite in as little as 15 to 20 minutes in the incoming arctic ...

(AP) — A huge swath of the U.S. was blasted with ice, snow and wind on Monday as the polar vortex that ... President Jimmy Carter. In Kentucky’s biggest city, Louisville, Hugh Ross used ...

Much of the United States has been buried in a deep freeze. And Kentucky faces the brunt of a polar vortex that continues to ...

(AP) — The plunging polar vortex brought subfreezing ... Associated Press reporters Bruce Schreiner in Shelbyville, Kentucky; Dylan Lovan in Louisville, Kentucky; Brian Witte in Annapolis ...

As more Arctic air masses flow into the WOWK-TV region, you have undoubtedly heard the term “Polar Vortex” brought up in the ...

But during the winter, it is joined by a second atmospheric phenomenon dubbed the polar vortex. This swirl of frigid air, located more than 10 miles above Earth’s surface, strengthens each year ...

One of the key players in these dramatic shifts is something called the polar vortex. The polar vortex is a massive area of cold air located high in the atmosphere, typically spinning over the ...

These outbreaks can happen when the polar vortex is in a weaker state, allowing cold air that is normally confined to the north to break off and move further south. Some experts say this is ...