#winter storm

#winter storm

The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued blizzard warnings for millions of residents in New Jersey, Delaware, Long Island, New York City, and southern Connecticut from Sunday morning through Monday afternoon. "Whiteout conditions are expected and will make travel treacherous and potentially life-threatening," the blizzard warning reads. "The strong winds and weight of snow on tree limbs may down power lines and could cause sporadic power outages."

Yosemite National Park is closed through Friday because of impacts from the winter storm, including heavy snowfall and heavy trees. The National Park Service announced Thursday that the park is closed and that visitors with lodging reservations may still enter the park through Highway 140 at the Arch Rock entrance. Since Monday, Yosemite Valley and the park has received about 4 feet of snow and up to 52 inches in some areas, according to the National Weather Service in Hanford.

Shouldered by sandstone cliffs, these caves in Bayfield, Wisconsin, form when water-and, notably, waves-that would normally flow through the sandstone freezes instead, birthing icicles, columns, and curtains. During the winter of 2015, the caves attracted just shy of 40,000 tourists within a nine-day period, the Associated Press reported at the time.

After close to a month, it's time for New York City drivers to move their cars because alternate side parking is back in effect. "The New York City Department of Transportation announced that Alternate Side Parking Regulations will resume starting Thursday, 2/19. Parking meters will remain in effect," Notify NYC's bulletin said. Alternate side parking rules had been suspended since a winter storm hit the tri-state area in late January, bringing snow and freezing rain.

Toronto police officers issued more than $2 million in parking tickets to drivers who parked their vehicles along designated snow removal routes in the last two weeks of January, data shows. Police parking enforcement officers handed 21,508 tickets to drivers who parked on snow routes in the city from Jan. 15 to Jan. 30, with each ticket carrying a fine of $100, according to the Toronto Police Service.

WeatherJapan stays in a very active winter pattern through early next week, with the most reliable snow from Thu night (02/05) through Mon (02/09) and frequent refreshes in Hokkaido. Snow levels sit at or near sea level for much of the period in Hokkaido, and that keeps precipitation as snow even down low while temperatures hold well below freezing. Snow quality should improve as colder air settles in, with SLRs often rising into the 16-19:1 range later in the weekend.

A bomb cyclone produced freezing temperatures across a large portion of the US from the Gulf coast to New England, bringing heavy snow to North Carolina where two were killed in storm-related conditions, and setting records in Florida, where officials warned of ice and falling iguanas. About 150 million people were under cold weather advisories and extreme cold warnings in the eastern portion of the US,

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NEW YORK -- The NBA has announced new dates for four games as a result of the winter storm's impact on the Memphis and Dallas areas. Poor weather last weekend forced the postponement of two scheduled Sunday games: Dallas at Milwaukee and Detroit at Memphis. The Nuggets-Grizzlies game has been rescheduled for March 18, while the Mavericks-Bucks game now will take place March 31.

"They were just screaming, telling me to help them," Cheyenne Hangaman told The Associated Press. "And I watched all of them struggle, struggle to stay above the water. I watched all of them fight."

Air travel is showing more signs of recovery after Winter Storm Fern pummelled the country over the weekend. There were around 1,300 canceled flights within, into, or out of the US as of 6:20 a.m. ET on Tuesday, according to data from FlightAware. Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport led the charge with 276, followed by Charlotte Douglas with 138. While more flights are likely to be canceled throughout the day, there were about 4,000 such cancellations early on Monday. The day ended with 6,250 canceled flights, per FlightAware. That compares to Sunday's 11,618 canceled flights.

Existing contracts have no provisions for snow removal That's because the city's snow-clearing contracts which were signed in 2021 under former mayor John Tory and don't expire until 2029 don't include any provisions for snow removal. Contracted companies are only responsible for plowing city streets, so they have no obligation to actually take the snow, load it onto dump trucks and drive it out to a storage facility.