Researchers have proposed a more accurate way to calculate the global surface air temperature, which suggests we are just ...

Prolonged high-pressure periods could become more common during the spring and summer, forcing utilities to hedge more of their production ...

Analysis: The great weather we're currently enjoying is down to a a blocking area of high pressure sitting ... the Stratospheric Polar Vortex breaks down, it can act like a pattern reset.

Low pressure in one region begets high pressure in another ... These seesawing changes can trigger predictable shifts in global weather patterns. Content continues below Just about everything ...

Blocked patterns can bring extremes depending on where and when they develop - high temperatures and ... Scientists believe that due to global warming the polar jet stream is weakening.

Polar sea ice has reached record, and near-record, lows for this time of year, pushing the pace of global warming and alarming ... previous years and the record high year. 2024 to 2025 is shown ...

Scientists say it’s being caused by a misbehaving polar vortex combining with a key weather pattern that seems ... long-lasting area of high pressure known as a blocking high because it blocks ...

The polar vortex has taken on an unexpected ... south to over southern Canada and the United States. The pattern of high latitude high pressure caused the jet stream, a ribbon of strong winds ...

This shift is encouraging the erratic weather patterns high in the atmosphere ... are happening more often as global warming has weakened the polar vortex. What’s less clear is whether those ...

So, instead of continuing our look at the top global weather stories of 2024, we are going to examine just why winter high pressure can ... Arctic air masses, the polar jet stream, and large-scale ...

And the surface low pressure ... polar vortex are two rings of fast-moving air around the Arctic, which play a large role in world weather patterns, according to experts at the Massachusetts Institute ...