above the water. That mountain peak serves as the perfect object to generate the vortex streets on prevailing northerly winds. Figure 1. Diagram of Jeju Island (inset), which sits off the south ...

A lobe of the polar vortex will arrive in the United States this weekend, bringing the lowest temperatures in years and snow and ice to the East and Deep South.

The sensor in the vortex meter counts the number of swirls or vortices and how fast they are moving ... Saturated steam is created when water is heated to a gaseous state but kept just below the ...

You've definitely been there -- you need to make a large batch of your favorite punch recipe quickly for a party. You went to pour your liquid from a bottle and were met with that slow glugging ...

That air swirls well above the troposphere, which is the layer closest to the ground, where weather happens. The vortex can sometimes shift away from the pole, stretch or even split in a way that ...

But during the winter, it is joined by a second atmospheric phenomenon dubbed the polar vortex. This swirl of frigid air ... but another is water vapor that is available to freeze into snow.