Winter arrives late, bites hard
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Winter arrived late but compensated with a burning blast of cold in parts of eastern Canada and the northern United States on Monday, as plunging temperatures and biting winds made it deadly to be outdoors.
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A winter storm is projected to drop as much as 15 inches of snow on Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, but it should pass in time for the N.F.L. conference championship games.
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A major winter storm moved across the Midwest and was expected to arrive in the N.Y. area late this afternoon.
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The nation's retailers had a slow start to the spring season as unseasonably cold weather in February chilled demand for lightweight apparel and left merchants with disappointing sales. The slowing economy, particularly the weakening housing market, could challenge shoppers in the months ahead.
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It might be a long winter for Coldwater Creek.
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By Matt Weiser, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Feb. 23--All of a sudden, it's starting to feel a lot like winter.   Sacramento got a half-inch of rain on Thursday, and ski resorts near Lake Tahoe were on track to get at least a foot of fresh snow by this morning.
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By Stan Finger and Brent Wistrom, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Feb. 13--Wichita will awaken to another dose of winter today, with snow and bitter cold accenting the day.   Forecasters are calling for 2 to 4 inches of snow with isolated heavier amounts possible.
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Frigid air and gusts of snow created below-zero wind chills and white-out conditions across much of the country.
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Winter is back with a vengeance in Eastern Europe, with heavy snow causing chaos.
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"Whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul . . . " Ishmael says in the opening of "Moby Dick", describing more or less not just conditions this month, but the weather just about every November in New England. The passage also can be used to make a sharp point about starting the ski season too early. In ...
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Mild weather was expected to linger in  most of the United States until at least early January,  continuing a prolonged spell of balmy conditions that has cut  deeply into heating demand, government and private forecasters  said on Tuesday.
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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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ST. LOUIS --ÃÂ The men's NCAA soccer semifinals scheduled for Friday night was postponed because of heavy snow and ice blanketing the city.
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Weather forecasts are notoriously fickle, but bees, caterpillars and bears are proving as divided as meteorologists on how long winter will last.
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Frigid temperatures, blasting wind and more snow than some places normally see in a year left parts of the Midwest and South paralyzed Thursday, and transformed a section
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Snow and ice storms have stranded hundreds of thousands of people Â most of them migrant workers hoping to leave for the Chinese New Year Â and more blizzards threatened Monday to wreck what for many is a rare chance to see family.
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NEW YORK  - Cold weather enthusiasts may  eagerly await the snowy days of winter, but for those with  seasonal affective disorder, the change from sunny to gloomy  days often brings on a similar change in mood.