”snow” News

Who is snowphisticated? How some cities clear snow

No two snowflakes are alike, and there's not a city that has the same strategy to remove snow from streets as any other. Here are highlights of plans that some cities in the U.S. and around the world have to clean their streets after a storm, which range from the brute force of repeated plowing,
02 19 2010 1:54AM (...more)

Blizzard May Disrupt Commuters From Washington to NYC

Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Flights were canceled, schoolsclosed, commuters delayed and the U.S. Congress suspended workas forecasters warned a blizzard may blanket Washington and New York with as much as 20 inches (51 centimeters) of snow.
02 11 2010 7:48AM (...more)

China lets it snow, lets it snow, lets it snow

BEIJING (Reuters) – China took credit Tuesday for the first snowfall of the winter in Beijing , saying it fired sticks of chemicals into the sky to seed clouds in a bid to end a persistent
02 20 2009 6:27AM (...more)

Holiday travel troubles

Midwest A wide variety of active weather will be felt across the Great Lakes, Midwest, and Plains today.A cold front will continue to mush southeast across the Midwest and Plains today, while a deepening low pressure moves northeast through
11 21 2007 10:15PM (...more)

Clearing roads in winter requires snowphistication

CHICAGO – The forecast: a mighty winter blizzard sure to dump a record-setting blanket of snow that will grow from inches to feet overnight, just in time for rush hour. When it happened this month in Washington, they called it "Snowpocalypse" and an overwhelmed city couldn't keep
02 19 2010 1:22AM (...more)

Is Your Roof Overloaded From Snow?

To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Wendy Rose of IBHS, +1-813-675-1045, wrose@ibhs.org TAMPA, Fla ., March 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) today released
03 11 2008 12:29PM (...more)

49 states dusted with snow; Hawaii's the holdout

Forget red and blue — color America white. There was snow on the ground in 49 states Friday. Hawaii was the holdout. It was the United States of Snow, thanks to an unusual
02 19 2010 1:26AM (...more)

Storm impacts much of the East

Northeast A storm system moves from eastern Ohio Tuesday morning to off the Maine coast Wednesday morning pushing a swath of rain, sleet and snow through the Northeast.The trick, as always, is where the rain, sleet and snow lines fall.It appears that I-95 corridor should have mostly rain. There
02 28 2008 1:45AM (...more)

The next big storm

South The South is in the middle of a multiple round rain and thunderstorm event which will continue into the weekend.A wave of low pressure will zip northeastward from the Tennessee Valley into the Mid-Atlantic, driving heavy
03 27 2009 11:30AM (...more)

Arctic sea ice melt comes close, but misses record

WASHINGTON - Crucial Arctic sea ice this summer shrank to its second lowest level on record, continuing an alarming trend, scientists said Tuesday.
09 17 2008 6:43AM (...more)