A Frosty Blow to the Nation's Midsection
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Authorities struggled to remove abandoned cars and reopen slick highways across the nation's midsection after a record snowfall buried the region and stranded holiday travelers and shoppers.
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Blowing snow and sleet glazed windshields and roads across the Northeast and the Midwest on Wednesday, messing up Valentine's Day flower deliveries and wrecking couples' plans for romantic dinners.
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Authorities struggled to remove abandoned cars and reopen still-slick highways across the nation's midsection Friday after a record snowfall buried the region and stranded holiday travelers and shoppers.
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A sloppy storm dumped more than a year's worth of snow on parts of the Midwest and made a mess of holiday travel and last-minute Christmas shopping Thursday. More than a dozen traffic deaths were blamed on the storm.
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Central Park saw only about a half an inch of snow after parts of the Midwest reported as much as two feet.
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Until this week, the mid-Atlantic got the cold shoulder from winter, and area residents just adored the snub. Those lower heating costs were as sweet as playing 18 holes on New Year's Day.
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A thin film of freezing rain contributes to dozens of car wrecks and makes it difficult to get to the polls.
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The weather will turn milder through  the weekend in the central and eastern United States, thawing  out the regions after the first arctic blast swept through them  last week, according to weather forecasters.
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An Arctic cold wave gripping the central and northeastern United States is dumping heavy snow in New York and other states near the Great Lakes, the National Weather Service said.
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A brief surge of bitter cold and  powerful wind will sweep into the U.S. Midcontinent Wednesday  and Thursday, sending temperatures down as much as 40 degrees  in some cities, weather forecasters predicted.
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A winter storm is brought a sleet and freezing rain to parts of the country not used to seeing it. Police are investigating two fatal car accidents in North Carolina blamed on the slick road conditions.
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A winter storm that pounded the Sierra Nevada over the weekend delivered a snowy, icy mess across the nation's central states, stalling holiday travel, closing stretches of highway and making a nationally televised football game look at times like the tuner was off by a channel.
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Tens of thousands were without power  and schools were closed across parts of the central United  States on Monday after a storm dumped as much as 2 1/2 feet of  snow on some areas.
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Driving snow leaves half a million people without power as a winter storm hit the central United States.
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Bitterly cold winter weather gripped the Midwest on Saturday, and whiteout conditions were blamed for traffic pileups in Michigan and Ohio.  Blizzard warnings were in effect for parts of Michigan, and temperatures reached as low as 17 below zero in the Upper Peninsula.
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It's a chore that can quickly chill the warmth of the holiday season: Trudging outside each winter night to unplug the lights, deflate the blowup snowman and shut off the rest of the outdoor extravaganza.
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Temperatures plummeted across the eastern half of the nation yesterday, approaching a record in northern Minnesota and freezing the Gulf Coast as a river of Arctic air pushed southward.