Winter storm woes hit central, eastern U.S.
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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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A winter storm roared into the northeastern United States on Wednesday, dumping a mixture of snow, ice, sleet and rain that forced widespread school closures and caused transportation havoc.
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Utilities in the U.S. Central Plains  said nearly 400,000 customers remained without power on Friday  due to ice storms this week.
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Winter storms that clobbered the Midwest Wednesday and Thursday have bottled up local package deliveries. &quot;It couldn&#39;t happen at a worse time,&quot; said Jeff Costello, the US Postal Service&#39;s
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Residents in the eastern United States and parts of Canada have driven on treacherously icy roads and dug out of the first major snow storm to hit the region this year.
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The first substantial winter storm of the season hit the New York area after paralyzing parts of the Midwest and blizzard warnings were issued for parts of three states.
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A cold front is expected to move through much of the eastern third of the country on Saturday, bringing rain to areas east of the Mississippi River.
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Snowdrifts 6 feet high kept some Massachusetts residents trapped in their homes and commuters across the Northeast limped back to work on icy roads and packed trains Monday as the region struggled to dig out from a paralyzing weekend blizzard. About 20 deaths were believed linked to the weather.
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A winter storm packing snow, sleet and freezing rain stranded hundreds of motorists on Interstate 95 in eastern North Carolina, knocked out power to thousands and caused hundreds of accidents.
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Storms that spun tornadoes and dropped pounding hail in the central United States, killing six people, barreled toward the east coast Friday, bringing hope for relief to parched southern states suffering the worst drought in a century.
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A winter storm hit the Great Lakes on Friday, blanketing the region with several inches of snow and disrupting holiday travel.
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A winter storm was expected to intensify along the East Coast on Monday, dropping heavy snow from New Jersey to Maine, while the Plains and Southeast were expected to be clear and dry.
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A major snowstorm was moving through  the U.S. Midwest causing transportation hang-ups, making it  difficult to move grain and livestock to terminal markets, a  private forecaster said on Tuesday.
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Precipitation was expected Tuesday in the eastern half of the country as a cold front moved from the Mississippi into the Appalachians and eventually to the East Coast.
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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 cold front that brought severe weather and flooding and severe weather to the Midwest over the past week moved east on Sunday, with rain falling in the coastal states and thunderstorms lingering in the southern Appalachians.
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China struggled on Sunday with transport havoc and threats to energy and food supplies caused by snows and freezing cold, with forecasters warning of more harsh weather across eastern and central areas in coming days.