U.S. Army Arctic Regions Test Center (ARTC) is the Department of Defense’s lone extreme cold test facility. Tasked with testing virtually everything in the ground combat arsenal in a natural ...

U.S. forces this week wrapped up their participation in an annual Arctic training exercise that for the first time was held in both Alaska and Greenland. Arctic Edge, which began in 2018, includes ...

In November, the Air Force conducted Exercise Arctic Gold 26-1. The exercise was designed to test the 354th Fighter Wing’s ability to rapidly generate, deploy, and sustain its combat aircraft in a ...

We are looking towards next week at the possibility of Arctic air moving southward and the possibility of freezing temperatures in the Coastal Bend. One of the potential factors that could play a key ...

A disruption in the polar vortex centered over the North Pole will allow for areas of bitterly cold air to escape the Arctic region and move into the U.S. Under stable conditions, arctic air usually ...