The cold will pose a danger to pipes, so be sure to cover exterior pipes, open cabinets with pipes so warm air can circulate, and drip your faucets.

Saturday morning, the arctic front pushed through the region. While it may not feel super cold yet, trust us, it's on its way. Temperatures will continue to gradually decrease throughout the day and into Sunday morning.

A polar vortex is currently hitting the United States, with schools closed in many areas and at least four deaths caused by treacherous conditions.

The polar vortex has led to freezing temperatures, snowfall, and hazardous road conditions across large regions of the South, the Southeast, and the Ohio Valley climate regions, the National Weather S

An area stretching from Texas to Tennessee braced Wednesday for the possible arrival of freezing rain and snow even as some parts of the U.S. hit by the plunging polar vortex this week began to shake off its icy effects.

The United States continued to freeze through a polar vortex that brought rare cold to the southern United States and chances of freezing weather through much of the country.

Frigid air that escaped the Arctic is plunging temperatures to subfreezing levels in some of the southernmost points of the U.S.

as some other parts of the country that already received an arctic blast this week prepared to go another round with the plunging polar vortex. Arkansas' capital, Little Rock, closed schools on ...

A historic winter storm is poised to produce potentially record-breaking snows from coastal Texas to northern Florida late Monday into Tuesday. The event comes as an Arctic blast affects more than half the U.

According to the NWS, the Arctic polar vortex is a powerful band of west-to-east winds that develops in the stratosphere, about 10 to 30 miles above the North Pole, during the winter season. It is always present near the poles, though it weakens during summer and intensifies in winter.

Residents across the country from the Northern Plains to the tip of Maine are bracing for dangerously low temperatures

A polar vortex dipping down from Siberia will bring a cold front with frigid temperatures to nearly 300 million Americans. See maps of the arctic blast.