A team of researchers from the Met Office and the University of Leeds has pinpointed a new reason for winter storm clusters, ...

Researchers say a spinning mass of cold air in the stratosphere above the Arctic in 2022 made it up to three times more ...

Scientists have revealed the cause of three huge storms that battered the UK in space of a week in 2022. An "intense swirling ...

Powerful winter storms which led to deaths and power outages in the UK and Ireland were made more likely by an intense ...

Researchers says the finding could help forecasters identify any increased risk of storm clusters up to a month before they ...

Scientists have issued a warning to weather forecasters about a weather phenomenon that increases the risk of "damaging ...

The storms were made more likely by an intense swirling vortex of winds miles above the Arctic, say scientists.

New research has found that 'once in a decade' storms such as Eunice, Dudley and Franklin were all connected to an 'intense swirling vortex' miles above the Arctic.

After Feb dumped a wave of unconditionally severe winter weather in the US, March is about to unleash those conditions again due to the polar vortex collapse.

The Met Office says the UK is highly likely to see a polar vortex collapse in March - the weather phenomenon responsible for 2018’s ‘Beast from the East’. A sudden stratospheric warming (SSW ...

During the winter, the polar vortex can strengthen and weaken - and even reverse direction - which has effects on the weather in the UK and other countries such as the US. Sudden stratospheric warming ...

Powerful winter storms which led to deaths and power outages in the UK and Ireland were made more likely by an intense ...