EDITORIAL: Winter: The Season's First Snow Job
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By The Philadelphia Inquirer  Feb. 16--This is a plow. And this is frozen slush. Any questions?   In the first winter storm of any consequence, this city failed the street-clearing test badly.
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European ski resorts are hoping for sudden snowfalls to rescue the start of their season.
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Talk about timing. Sunday's northeaster, which brought more than a foot of snow to spots in New England, was a lot easier to take for most people than last Thursday's commuting headache. The blustery storm carried strong winds, ice, and sleet, and made young skiers and riders count the days until the upcoming vacation week.
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As the first signs of winter push into the Northeast, Cornell University researchers have some good news for fair weather fans _ spring is coming a week earlier than it did 40 years ago.
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By Tom Meade  The bite of bitter weather hardened the ice on many of the state's shallower ponds, offering the winter's first taste of ice fishing.
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A Christmas tree carved from 30 tonnes of ice has been erected in Austria and officials hope it won't melt away during a record run of mild weather at the start of winter.
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Traveling around the state last week, I noticed the fall foliage making its rapid transition to winter. In fact, Birmingham experienced its first freeze of the season - three weeks later than the normal date of Nov.
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As the first signs of winter push into the Northeast, researchers have some good news for fair weather fans &#151; spring is coming earlier than it used to.
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Outside the front windows, snow swirls from every direction in the gale winds off Long Island Sound. The little boy looking out the window is too young to talk, and one can only imagine what he is thinking. This is the first winter of his life, and his state of attention shows only that this all is ...
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As winter begins, the early morning sky is loaded with planets. Some are unmistakably bright, but a few will require some sleuthing.
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By Frank Fitzpatrick, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Feb. 16--The people, places and things we encounter in a lifetime are much like snowflakes: Some land in shade and linger with us all winter. Others, nearly identical, hit sunny asphalt and vanish as quickly as they came.
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By Joseph M. Dougherty Deseret Morning News  Meteorologists know not to be surprised by the weather.  Even though their computer models had predicted snow down to 7,500 feet for early Saturday, many residents awoke to a dusting, or slightly more, along the Wasatch Front.
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By Scott Richardson, The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.  Feb. 28--BLOOMINGTON -- This February was the snowiest on record in Bloomington-Normal in more than a century.
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The winter storm that roared through the Northwest and Rockies &#151; causing traffic nightmares and helping break a Seattle rain record &#151; blew across the southern Plains and Midwest, bringing with it the first significant ice and snow of the season.
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While much of Sweden is usually gripped by freezing temperatures and heavy snow in December, the south of the country was enjoying its mildest start to the month since 1953, meteorologists told Swedish radio.
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TOWER, Minn. Aug. 19, 2004  The calendar may say August, but in this northeastern Minnesota town early Thursday, it was cold. Plenty cold.
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It's a statewide tradition to be competitive over frigid-weather matters such as the record for below-zero temps.