Snow falls on a sidewalk in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 9, 2016. Above: Photos from a locally heavy snowfall from April 7-9, 2016 in the Great Lakes and interior Northeast. Afterwinter was the warmest on record across the Lower 48 states, more snow fell in April than in any of the preceding winter months in parts of the Great Lakes and Northeast. Many had hoped they could put away their snow shovels. However,the pattern shifted into early spring, taking a...

Winter Storm Zephyr dropped heavy snow in the Rocky Mountains and even into parts of the Front Range urban corridor May 10-13, 2014. Here are some notable snow totals from Winter Storm Zephyr: 43 inches estimated at Divide Peak in the Sierra Madre range of Wyoming30.1 inches near Pinecliffe, Colorado (Jefferson Co. foothills)29 inches near Four Corners in north-central Colorado22 inches in Leadville, Colorado22 inches in Arlington, Wyoming12.0 inches officially in Cheyenne, Wyoming (up to 13.3 inches in metro)9 inches...

The calendar may say April, but a major snowstorm will target parts of the Rockies and High Plains later Friday into this weekend, with the potential for feet of snow and strong winds that could snarl travel and cause power outages. This system has been named Winter Storm Vexo, click here for the latest forecast. Locations in the U.S. where April is the snowiest month of the year, on average. (Dr. Brian Brettschneider, NOAA/NCEI) Where April Snowstorms Are Typical December,...

Winter Storm Vexo dumped heavy snow on the Rockies and adjacent High Plains April 15-18, 2016. The storm buried the high terrain of Colorado with feet of snow, including a storm total of 51.3 inches near Pinecliffe. Up to a foot of snow even fell in the lower elevations at Denver International Airport. Portions of Interstate 80 were closed in southeast Wyoming Sunday morning due to poor travel conditions from the snow. Interstate 70 had to be closed at times...

A drone in Breckenridge, Colorado captured these beautiful images of fresh snowfall in the area. ...

A Category 4 "crippling" rating has been given to Winter Storm Jonas on the Northeast Snowfall Impact Scale (NESIS) that is used to rank Northeast snowstorms. The scale ranks significant snowstorms in the Northeast region Category 1 to Category 5, and was developed in 2004 by Paul Kocin, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, and Dr. Louis Uccellini, director of the National Weather Service. In a nutshell, widespread heavy snowfall over highly populated areas produces a high NESIS value...

January's Winter Storm Jonas was the heaviest snowstorm on record in New York City, according to a post-storm review released by NOAA on Thursday. The new preliminary official measurement for the Jan. 22-23 snowstorm at New York City's Central Park was adjusted up to 27.5 inches. The original storm total was 26.8 inches, but NOAA review found that was too low due to miscommunication between that National Weather Service in Upton, New York, and the Central Park Conservancy, which is...

Despite the calendar switching to May, more snow will fall in the Rockies and High Plains this weekend. The latest in a series of late-season winter storms that have been riding into the western U.S. from the Pacific has already dumped up to 20 inches of snow in the mountains of Colorado, and there's more to come. The weight of this heavy, wet snow downed power lines and tree branches in Holyoke and Julesburg, Colorado, and also downed branches in...

Buried road needs to be cleared of snow before Norway tourist season ...

Memorial Day weekend is widely regarded as the unofficial start to summer in the United States, but two of the past four years have featured snow in portions of northern New England and upstate New York. This year, it's some parts of the Rockies that may see snow instead of sun for the holiday weekend. While most of the country enjoys warm and humid weather this weekend, residents of the Rockies may be , which announced earlier this week that...

High-resolution satellite loop of Winter Storm Boreastracking across the South, spreading into the East from Nov. 23-26, 2013. (Credit: Robert Simmon/NASA Earth Observatory) Winter Storm Boreas (the Greek god of the north wind), the second named storm of the 2013-2014 winter season, was responsible for a pre-Thanksgiving wintry potpourri of snow, ice and wind from California to Maine. Tom Niziol, winter weather expert for the Weather Channel ( | ), says that roughly 58 million Americans were affected by either...

October = Snow? When you hear the word snow, what month first comes to mind? January ... December ... November? In recent years, October has delivered its share of notable, and in some cases destructive, snowstorms to parts of the country. Let's step through some of these recent October snow events, starting with what had once been a hurricane. NEXT > Superstorm Sandy's Snowy Side Boone, N.C. Eva Miranda, 27, battles through howling wind and snow as she makes her...

At a Glance Some northern and western U.S. cities can see accumulating snow in September.The earliest that accumulating snow has occurred in most of the Midwest and Northeast cities is October. The earliest that accumulating snow can fall in some U.S. cities is just around the corner. Based on history, September is when several western and northern cities in the Lower 48 have seen their earliest first accumulating snow of the season. Accumulating snow is defined by what the National...