Winter Storm Orion blanketed parts of Washington state with snow, socked Oregon and California with rain and freezing rain, contributing to several deaths. The wintry blast then moved east, as a second impulse of snow swept into the southern Great Lakes, Ohio Valley and Northeast. School closures, power outages and hazardous traffic conditions are likely to continue into Monday morning for some regions affected by Orion. (MORE: Tracking Winter Storm Orion) Scroll down below for more information on howspecific states...

Wet snow falling late Monday night into tax deadline day Tuesday shattered Detroit's long-standing seasonal snowfall record. Through April 17, a total of 94.9 inches of snow had been measured in the 2013-14 season at Detroit's Metro Airport, topping the previous record snowiest season, 93.6 inches set in 1880-81. This is more than double their average seasonal snowfall of 44.1 inches. While located in the Great Lakes region, Detroit does not pick up heavy lake-effect snow, as they are located...

Winter 2013 - 2014 Season Recap The dominant theme of the winter of 2013-14 was one of persistent cold and snowy conditions for a good part of the nation from the Upper Midwest and Midwest through the Great Lakes Region. There were 25 named winter storms that spanned a time frame from early October through mid-April. (MORE: 2013 - 2014 Winter Storms A through Y) Record snowfall and cold temperatures dominated the headlines for a host of cities, especially for...

At least one person was killed in a traffic accident during a Winter Storm Zephyr. The weather appears to be to blame for at least one fatal crash Sunday on U.S. Highway 285 southwest of Denver. The highway was one of the worst for accidents in the storm. Two law enforcement cruisers were also hit along the road in less than an hour responding to other crashes. Traffic began rolling again across a southern Wyoming artery that had been shuttered...

Winter Storm Atlas: Oct. 3-5, 2013 iWitness Guzva84 captured this photo of mailboxes encased in snow in Spearfish, SD. So far, the 2013-2014 winter storm season has had 25 named winter storms. Starting with Winter Storm Atlas below is a look back at each storm from to A to Y. Winter Storm Atlas, the first named winter storm of the 2013-2014 season,delivered feet of snow from the northern Rockies to the northern High Plains. Atlas brought crippling impacts to the...

Wintry weather has wrapped up for the season, and no accumulating snow or ice is expected in the Lower 48 for the foreseeable future. Below are the latest updates from The Weather Channel team of meteorologists, along with National Weather Service offices and posts from social media. The latest updates will appear automatically on top; no need to refresh this page. Times on the left are in Eastern Time; subtract one hour for Central Time, two hours for Mountain Time...

Yet again, northern Illinois residents made their way to work or school Friday morning dodging snowflakes as they fell from the sky– the latest of many snow events that have occurred in the region during a seemingly endless season. Chicago did not officially receive any snowfall from this system, but towns to the west were reporting accumulating snow. Rockford and DeKalb were among the towns that saw snowfall, according to NOAA. If reports are confirmed, this would be the latest...

The weekend of February 8 marks the one-year anniversary of Winter Storm Nemo, which buried parts of New England under feet of snow Feb. 8 to Feb. 10, 2013. Based on past history, early to middle February seems to be a bullseye on the calendar for major Northeast snowstorms This is a topic The Weather Channel senior meteorologist Stu Ostro(Twitter | Facebook) has blogged about in the past, with the bar graph to the right providing the proof. The graph...

December's Winter Storm Cleonhad a fascinating side effect on the Dallas area. The ice storm that shut down much of north Texas in early December occurred nine months ago, and it appears a lot of the city's residents were knocking (snow)boots while hunkered down in their homes. According to NBC DFW, hospitals all over the Metroplex have been bustling with newborns in recent weeks. LaToya Scales, a nurse at Baylor Medical Center in Dallas, told NBC DFW that doctors delivered...

Snow fell on the Labor Day weekend in parts of northern Alaska and Wyoming, providing a gentle reminder that summer is on its last legs. Snow levels lowered to 9,000 feet in northwest Wyoming. A dusting of snow was captured on Wyoming DOT cams Sunday morning northwest of Dubois, Wyoming along U.S. 26 and 287 at an elevation of 9,500 feet and coated the top of Grand Targhee Resort Sunday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service office in Riverton,...

Barrow, Alaska, was blanketed by its first significant snowfall of the season Tuesday, turning the town into a winter wonderland just one day after Labor Day. Officially, 4.4 inches of snow fell Tuesday in America's northernmost city, about 350 miles north of the Arctic Circle(2012 population: 4,346). Tuesdaytied the third heaviest September calendar-day snow on record in Barrow. Only Sept. 13, 1987 (5.1 inches) and Setp. 9, 2003 (4.7 inches) were heavier.Tuesday was its heaviest calendar-day snow on record anytime...

A second round of summer snow has struck Calgary, Alberta, Canada, snarling travel, downing trees, and triggering thousands of power outages. The weight of this wet snow took its toll, downing numerous leafy trees inCalgary, the province's largest city at a population of 1 million. About 30,000 customers were without power as of Wednesday morning, according to ENMAX, the city's electricity provider. According to the Calgary Herald, the city received over 900 reports of fallen trees and responded to 168...