Parts of the Upper Midwest with a rather paltry snowpack may get a quick stripe of snow just in time for a white Christmas. (MORE: White Christmas Forecast) Unfortunately, this snow may be poorly timed, namely, on Christmas Eve, when many will be flying into our out of one of the world's busiest airports, or traveling to Christmas Eve service or festivities. Let's start with potential impact on Chicagoland, then break down who else may see significant snow. Christmas Eve...

Winter Storm Eris will continue dropping snow from the Rockies to the Upper Great Lakes through early Saturday morning, moving east before tapering off.A few snow showers may linger into Saturday morning in eastern Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. To the south, an area of light to moderate snow will slide into the southern Rockies and southern High Plains of southern Colorado, New Mexico and Texas/Oklahoma panhandles. Lingering light snow is possible in the central High Plains...

Winter Storm Eris (air-is; from Greek mythology: the goddess of discord) blanketed parts of the West in snow and provided a white Christmas in the Rockies, and not just over the higher elevations. It then moved east into the Great Plains and upper Midwest during the first half of the post-holiday weekend. Here's a round-up of some of Eris' heavier snowfalls: - 30 inches near Roscoe, Montana- 13.5 inches near Galena, Idaho- 12 inches in Chama, New Mexico- 15 inches...

Yes, there were blizzard warnings in effect in Hawaii, where the two highest mountain peaks on the Big Island eventually saw a White Christmas. (MORE: Weirdest White Christmases) Blizzard warnings were in effect on Christmas Eve for Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa above 11,500 feet for strong winds and heavy snow which led to blowing and drifting snow. By definition, winds must be at least 35 mph or greater with falling or blowing snow that reduces visibilityto 1/4 mile or...

It might "never rain in Southern California," as the old Albert Hammond song goes, but it sure can snow. The snowfall even came down in areas that don't usually see wintry weather at the lower elevations. At 1,400 feet, Lake Elsinore reported six inches of snow to the National Weather Service, and residents were quite surprised to wake up Wednesday to see front yards and palm trees covered in snow. (MORE: The Latest News on Winter Storm Frona) As Winter...

Winter Storm Frona has dumped a significant amount of snow in the Pacific Northwest, and to a lesser extent portions of the northern Rockies and the Wasatch Range. The winter storm is also expected to bring snow to the Southwest, an unusual occurrence. The top reported snowfall has been 28 inches over Santiam Pass, Oregon, and 26 inches outside of Jaype in Clearwater County, Idaho. (MORE: | ) A winter weather advisory has been posted for Las Vegas in anticipation...

In the wake of , lake-effect snow has kicked in again across portions of the Great Lakes region. We will continue to deal with the lake-effect snow off and on this week as in between large-scale weather systems. Gorgon was one of those. In fact, a beefy lake-effect snow event squeezed in on Monday, after and before Winter Storm Gorgon. That lake-effect episode dumped a quick 28.5 inches of snow near Fulton, New York, which is in the Lake Ontario...

After a long week of winter weather impacted millions of Americans with harsh temperatures and snow, another system was set to brush the Northeast's big cities with a few inches of snow, while parts of western New York were receiving far more from a lake-effect event. According to National Weather Service reports, 9.5 inches of snow had fallen just north of Buffalo by 7:30 a.m. Friday morning. More than a foot of snow fell near Kenmore, according to NWS reports....

Parts of New York braced for yet another lake effect snow event that brought nearly 5 feet of snow to a town just east of Lake Ontario. This additional snowfall was accompanied by yet another blast of bitterly cold wind as it slid across the northern U.S. The new cold surge whipped up a ground blizzard across parts of the Upper Midwest Thursday of last week. A lake-effect snowband in Michigan played a role in a that occurred Friday morning...

took a long December vacation, but a significant pattern change opened the Arctic freezer door as 2014 came to a close. Wednesday morning put an exclamation point on the cold snap, as the tiny unincorporated village of Daniel, Wyoming, plummeted to 48 degrees below zero. That wasn't the wind chill -- that was the actual temperature. It's the coldest temperature recorded anywhere in the contiguous United States in all of 2014. The cold is already suspected to be the cause...

Winter Storm Hektor brought snow and freezing rain to the Ohio Valley and Northeast, leaving behind a swath of messy roadways and two deaths. Local police said was killed when his vehicle lost control on icy roads and careened into a utility pole in Chester, New York, the Times-Herald Record reports. Over the weekend, Winter Storm Hektor killed at least one person in Arkansas. In the Ozarks, 49-year-old Mark Londrie and flipped early Sunday morning, KY3 News reports. Hektor slowed...

Accompanying a ,for some, Winter Storm Astro brought the season's first snow to a swath of the north-central U.S. from Sunday, Nov. 9 through Tuesday, Nov. 11. In a few cases, records were set. (MORE: ||) Snow Reports/Totals The heaviest snow from Astro came in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where cold winds blowing across Lake Superior helped boost totals. An observer 7 miles north-northeast of Ishpeming, Michigan, reported 42.5 inches of snow as of 10 a.m. Wednesday. Some of this was...