Wichita, Kan. A wrecked car sits in the middle of US Highway 54 near downtown Wichita, Kan. as heavy snow falls on Wednesday morning, Feb. 20, 2013. (AP Photo/The Wichita Eagle, Travis Heying) MINNEAPOLIS -- Gusty winds and iced-over roadways made for treacherous Midwest travel Friday as a major winter storm headed east over the Great Lakes. Four deaths have been linked to the storm, including three from traffic accidents. Hundreds of flights in and out of Chicago's two airports...

Wichita, Kan. A wrecked car sits in the middle of US Highway 54 near downtown Wichita, Kan. as heavy snow falls on Wednesday morning, Feb. 20, 2013. (AP Photo/The Wichita Eagle, Travis Heying) A multi-day snow and ice event pushed its way through the West on Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 19-20, dumping snow in parts of southern Arizona that see more 70-degree days than snowy day in February. On Thursday, Feb. 21, the system moved into the Plains, dumping snow...

Season's Largest, Longest Winter Storm Wichita, Kan. A wrecked car sits in the middle of US Highway 54 near downtown Wichita, Kan. as heavy snow falls on Wednesday morning, Feb. 20, 2013. (AP Photo/The Wichita Eagle, Travis Heying) Above: Photos from Winter Storm Q in the Midwest and West In terms of geography and duration, Winter Storm Q was the 2012-13's largest winter storm to date, with snow from California all the way to Maine. For a more detailed recap...

Wichita, Kan. A wrecked car sits in the middle of US Highway 54 near downtown Wichita, Kan. as heavy snow falls on Wednesday morning, Feb. 20, 2013. (AP Photo/The Wichita Eagle, Travis Heying) Winter Storm Q took a lengthy journey from the West Coast to the nation's midsection from Feb. 19 through Feb. 24. Snow began in the mountains of California on Tuesday, Feb. 19. By Wednesday, Feb. 20, snows spread across the Intermountain West and even parts of the...

Amarillo, Texas Amarillo emergency personnel assist a stranded motorist on the I-40 service road Monday, Feb. 25, 2013. (AP Photo/The Amarillo Globe News, Michael Schumacher) Winter Storm Rocky hit a wide swath of the U.S. with wind gusts of 40 to 50 mph and wet snow. It started in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and Missouri and headed through Colorado, Iowa, northern Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan. It left six people dead in Kansas, hundreds of vehicles crashed or stranded and tens of...

Amarillo, Texas Amarillo emergency personnel assist a stranded motorist on the I-40 service road Monday, Feb. 25, 2013. (AP Photo/The Amarillo Globe News, Michael Schumacher) Winter Storm Rocky packed heavy snow and strong winds left six people dead in Kansas, hundreds of vehicles crashed or stranded in Wisconsin, and tens of thousands of utility customers without power in Michigan. "It's the heaviest snow we've received all winter long, as far as the largest quantity and it's wet," said Mark Rupnik,...

Skiers and snowboarders are towed back to their cars in this Feb. 10 photo by a 1954 Bombadier snow tractor after a weekend of skiing at Meany Lodge in Stampede Pass, Wash. At Meany Lodge, it's as if time stood still where a Chevy truck engine still powers the longest of three rope tows. (AP Photo/The News Tribune, Craig Hill) STAMPEDE PASS, Wash. (AP) — The instructions for time travel are as follows: Step one: On a winter weekend, follow...

Amarillo, Texas Amarillo emergency personnel assist a stranded motorist on the I-40 service road Monday, Feb. 25, 2013. (AP Photo/The Amarillo Globe News, Michael Schumacher) Here are some selected snowfall reports from Winter Storm Rocky as it made its way from the mountains of the Pacific Northwest through the Rockies and into the Plains, Midwest, and Northeast from Thursday, Feb. 21 through the following Thursday, Feb. 28. Also on the list are selected ice accumulation reports from freezing rain that...

Winthrop, Mass. A state police cruiser parks along Winthrop Shore Drive just after high tide as side streets were flooded during a storm that left as much as a foot of snow in some areas, March 8, 2013. (Darren McCollester/Getty Images) WHITMAN, Mass. -- The late-winter storm that buried parts of the country was forecast to be little more than a nuisance for most of New England. Try telling that to Connecticut and Massachusetts residents who spent two days shoveling...

Saturn's Eastern Storm Reports The Weather Channel named Winter Storm Saturn on Saturday, March 2, 2013. Snow hit the central and northern Rockies on Sunday, March 3, and spread into North Dakota by Monday, March 4. By Tuesday, March 5, the most significant snows had shifted into the Upper Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes region. On March 6, snow took aim on the Appalachians and areas to the west of Washington, D.C. From March 7 to March 8, Saturn...

Winona, Minn. Seven inches of wet snow from Winter Storm Triton caused this tree branch to snap in Winona, Minn., on March 11, 2013. (iWitness Weather/Tom Grier) Winter Storm Triton's snowy blast began at the beginning of the weekend, dumping more than a foot of snow on Flagstaff, Ariz. before moving into the Rockies. Blizzard conditions could be present as the storm moves east in the coming days, so caution should be urged. Here are some images from the areas...

Winter Temperature Rankings Statewide winter temperature rankings for December 2012 through February 2013. Numbers indicate ranking among the last 118 winters; for example, Utah had its 20th-coldest winter while Florida had its tenth-warmest. Source: NCDC/NESDIS/NOAA The winter of 2012-13 was another warmer-than-average one, according to data released by NOAA's National Climatic Data Center on Monday. The report, which covers the recently-concluded "meteorological winter" from Dec. 1 through Feb. 28, shows that 2012-13 was the 20th-warmest winter of the past 118...

Luna Winter Storm Reports Winter Storm Luna initially produced an icy mess Sunday morning, January 27 in parts of the Upper Midwest. This spread into the interior Northeast by Monday morning, January 28 and into New England that afternoon. Our clickable map above shows all icing reports in the Upper Midwest and East through late Monday afternoon. Click on each icon to see the ice report. Ice accumulations from 1/4 to 1/2 inch were observed in northeast Iowa, northwest Illinois...