Year's First Nor'easter Hits
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New England's first major winter storm of 2008 snarled the Monday morning commute with heavy snow and closed hundreds of schools
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A winter storm responsible for deaths in the Midwest blasted the Northeast on Thursday, dumping snow and sleet and clogging some of the nation's most heavily traveled highways.
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By Steve Ford  Chill winds out of the northwest and frost on the windows in the morning don't exactly make fishermen think of spring.  But then I'm not most fishermen. The unusually warm winter we've been having has me champing at the bit earlier than ever. But it's not just that.
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By Steve Pollick, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio Feb. 16--The western Lake Erie ice has survived the onslaught of this week's blizzard-like Nor'easter, and fishermen were heading back out to favorite fishing zones yesterday.
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HALIFAX (CP) - Winter arrived with a windy fury Monday in Atlantic Canada, leaving residents to dig out from a thick blanket of wet snow that clogged roads, disrupted holiday travel and suspended drilling at an offshore rig.
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A winter storm blew into North Georgia and the Carolinas early Thursday, poised to deliver an icy sheen as cold air from the west collided with moisture from the Gulf of Mexico.
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Winds that caused some minor damage across the mid-Atlantic and New England moved off the coast early Saturday.
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By ED CULLEN  I stood looking at volunteer zinnias in the rain this morning thinking, "So long, summer children. Nice try." There are hard freezes predicted tonight and tomorrow night with a couple of nights of lows in the mid-30s thrown in.
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A winter storm roared into the northeastern United States on Wednesday, dumping a mixture of snow, ice, sleet and rain that caused transportation havoc and forced many schools to close.
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The season's first big wintry storm blustered across the Midwest on Friday and closed in on the Northeast, leaving hundreds of thousands without electricity, stranding airline passengers and burying streets in wet, heavy "heart attack snow."
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The frequency of major storms in the Northwest and New England is up, say experts.
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January starts data throws cold water on hopes for recovery.
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A storm trekked eastward through the Northern Rockies and into the Northern Plains early Thursday, while high pressure off the Carolina coast was to keep the East clear.
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By Dave Wischnowsky, Chicago Tribune  Jun. 9--The Great Storm of 2007 turned out to be a breeze for much of the Chicago area, but winds and rain did make a big splash early Friday morning in several far northern suburbs.
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By Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Mar. 2--Get out the cameras today, 'cause this blizzard is one for the  photo albums, if not the record books.   Once upon a time, North Dakota and Minnesota would get hit by snowfalls  like this one a couple of times a winter, at least.
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Earlier blooms. Less snow to shovel. Unseasonable warm spells. Signs that winters in the Northeast are losing their bite have been abundant in recent years and now researchers have nailed down numbers to show just how big the changes have been.
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Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England have been hit by fierce storms, with winds up to 124mph. Have you been affected?