Nightmare Scenario for Thanksgiving Travel The lines don't just start at the airport. Often, they start on the roads leading to the airport. This Wednesday, traffic on roads and interstates leading to the airports will be twice what it usually is on an average Wednesday according to INRIX, which tracks travel and traffic backups nationwide. That's not counting the traffic nightmare Winter Storm Boreas is creating this week as it moves across the Plains, Midwest, South and Northeast with snow,...

Up to 10 inches of snow fell on Tuesday along a swath from northern and western Nebraska to southern South Dakota, northwest Iowa and central Minnesota. Latest Radar Wednesday, some wet snow may persist in parts of northern Wisconsin and the U.P. of Michigan before pulling away into Canada later in the day. For some locations such as Minneapolis/St. Paul (1.8 inches) and North Platte, Neb. (2.2 inches), this was the season's first measurable snowfall. In both locations, the average...

A new blast of Arctic air that will engulf the central and eastern states through the weekend made an impressive initial appearance in Montana on Tuesday. (MORE: ) Tuesday's Temperatures Thermometers in the northern Montana city of recorded an incredible temperature drop of nearly 40 degrees in just two hours. At 3:53 p.m., on Tuesday, the temperature was 52 degrees—about 11 degrees above the average high for the day. During the next hour, the Arctic cold front pushed through and...