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News Articles: winter storm

A winter storm rolls through Amherst, N.Y., on Saturday. Power has been knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses across the country.

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  • Weather

A dangerous storm disrupts travel and knocks out power across the U.S.

The weather service said "life-threatening cold temperatures and dangerous wind chills will create a potentially life-threatening hazard for travelers that become stranded" or people who work outside.

December 24, 2022
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By:
  • Don Clyde
A person wrapped in a blanket crosses a snow-covered street Thursday in St. Louis.

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  • National

A massive winter storm is sweeping across the U.S., making holiday travel dangerous

Nationwide, thousands of flights were canceled or delayed. In some places, temperatures dropped more than 30 degrees in an hour. Wind chills reached well below zero. Inches of snow fell.

December 22, 2022
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By:
  • Becky Sullivan
People help each other through the rubble after a tornado tore through the area in Killona, La., about 30 miles west of New Orleans in St. James Parish, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022.

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  • National

3 are dead in Louisiana as a massive winter storm spawns tornadoes across the South

A destructive winter storm marched across the U.S., delivering blizzard-like conditions to the Great Plains hours after tornadoes touched down in parts of Texas, Oklahoma and in Louisiana.

December 14, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
This image from a Caltrans traffic camera shows snow conditions on California SR-89 Snowman in Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Calif., Saturday, Dec. 10, 2022. A stretch of California Highway 89 was closed due to heavy snow between Tahoe City and South Lake Tahoe, Cali., the highway patrol said.

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  • Weather

Winter storm slams western U.S., bringing heavy snow to Northern California

A winter storm packing powerful winds, heavy rain and potentially several feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada shut down highways, toppled trees and triggered flood watches and avalanche warnings.

December 11, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A plow clears away snow at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in Romulus, Mich., on Wednesday.

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  • Weather

A winter storm packing snow and freezing rain knocks out power and disrupts flights

More than 100,000 homes and businesses lost power and thousands of flights were canceled as states from New Mexico to Maine were placed under winter storm warnings and watches.

February 03, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
People walk on Boston Common in Boston after a snowstorm on Sunday. A powerful nor'easter last weekend brought blinding blizzard conditions with high winds causing widespread power outages to much of the Mid-Atlantic and New England coast. The storm dropped more than 30 inches in some areas of Massachusetts.

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  • Weather

Another winter storm now threatens a large swath of the Central and Eastern U.S.

The National Weather Service predicts a prolonged, major winter storm that could travel across parts of the Midwest into the Northeast later this week.

February 02, 2022
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By:
  • Peter Granitz
A man shovels snow in near whiteout conditions during a nor'easter in Marshfield, Mass., on Saturday.

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  • Weather

A winter storm piles snow and causes dangerous conditions along the East Coast

A bomb cyclone is storming the East Coast, leaving close to 100,000 without power as of Sunday night Blizzard conditions in New England are dropping 2 feet of snow in some areas.

January 30, 2022
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  • Deepa Shivaram
Pedestrians make their way down a partially plowed Murray Avenue Monday, Jan. 17, 2022, in Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh.

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  • Weather

Thousands in northeast are without power after heavy snowfall from winter storm

Homes and businesses across New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania were without power as a dangerous storm brought heavy snow, strong thunderstorms and blustery winds.

January 17, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
DOT trucks prepared for storm

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  • Weather

Georgia readying for winter storm

The state agencies in charge of responding to weather emergencies are bracing for a winter storm expected to hit North Georgia and metro Atlanta during a three-day holiday weekend.

January 14, 2022
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  • Dave Williams
Icicles hang off the State Highway 195 sign in Feb. 2021 in Killeen, Texas.

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  • Climate

Texas officials put the final death toll from last year's winter storm at 246

The Texas Department of State Health Services adjusted the number of people who died from last February's storm to 246 people — up from July's tally of 210.

January 03, 2022
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
People cross the road as a sign warns of heavy snow on Sunday in Denver, Colo. A winter storm closed roads, impacted flights, and knocked out power in Arizona, Wyoming, Nebraska, and Colorado through the weekend.

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  • Weather

Winter Storm Slams The West With Heavy Snow, Strong Winds

Lingering effects of the storm are expected to cause dangerous conditions though early Monday as residents dig out from under the weekend's record breaking levels of snow.

March 15, 2021
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
Cristian Pavon's family says negligence caused his death last week at age 11. Their home had been without power for two days as extreme cold hit Texas, a relative says. Here, an electrical substation is seen in Houston on Sunday.

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  • Weather

Texas Family Sues Power Provider, Utility Overseer After Son Dies In Freezing Weather

Cristian Pavon died last Tuesday when the local temperature was 12 degrees, according to a relative who set up a fundraising page for his family.

February 22, 2021
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  • Bill Chappell
Texas officials are reporting businesses are hiking up prices for food, water, and hotel rooms following a winter storm that walloped Texas this week. This is as residents wait in long lines at grocery stores and face food and water shortages.

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  • Weather

Texas Officials Warn Of Price Gouging As State Faces Food, Water Shortages

Houston area residents are reporting exorbitant prices of food, water, and hotel rooms while the state continues to deal with shortages of essential items after a winter storm hit the state.

February 19, 2021
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
Some of the thousands of cold-stunned sea turtles rescued in South Padre Island, Texas. Volunteers are continuing to rescue the creatures amid freezing temperatures and widespread power outages.

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  • Animals

Volunteers In Texas Are Saving Thousands Of Cold-Stunned Sea Turtles From The Storm

The nonprofit Sea Turtle, Inc. says it has brought in nearly 4,500 sea turtles and counting since Sunday. Still without power, it's heating its tanks with a commercial generator donated by SpaceX.

February 17, 2021
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  • Rachel Treisman
A highway on-ramp in Houston is closed due to snow and ice on Monday. Frigid temperatures, icy roads and power outages caused by a major winter storm have interfered with COVID-19 vaccine distribution in Texas and several other states.

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  • National

Winter Storm Disrupts COVID-19 Vaccinations, Closing Clinics And Delaying Shipments

Missouri has canceled all state-run mass vaccination events for the week, as other states and cities across the South reschedule appointments and warn of delayed shipments.

February 16, 2021
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  • Rachel Treisman
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