Weather

On top of the cancellations, another 4,700 flights were delayed nationwide on Monday as Texas and nearby states dealt with freezing temperatures and wintry precipitation.

The scope of the storm, which has killed at least 34 across the U.S., has been nearly unprecedented, stretching from the Great Lakes near Canada to the Rio Grande along the border with Mexico.

A video of a sports journalist in Iowa has racked up more than 20 million views on Twitter after he was recruited to help his station cover the icy storm for a day.

Forecasters are warning of treacherous holiday travel and life-threatening cold for much of the nation as an arctic air mass blows into the already-frigid southern United States.

A massive storm blowing across the country spawned tornadoes that wrecked homes and injured a handful of people in parts of Oklahoma and Texas, including the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Forecasters last fall predicted a warmer, drier winter for the Carolinas, and that's what we got. It's a trend dating from at least the 1970s. In fact, federal weather data show that winters are warming faster than any other season across the region.

The Texas weather calamity is an "absolutely awful nightmare," says City Council member Natasha Harper-Madison. "We're desperately waiting for state and federal cavalry to come a runnin'."

A winter storm expected to bring ice to the Carolinas beginning Wednesday evening prompted a state of emergency declared by N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper and led Mecklenburg County to cancel COVID-19 vaccination appointments scheduled for Thursday.

UPDATED 1:10 p.m.Late Friday afternoon, a line of strong thunderstorms moved across the Charlotte area leaving behind toppled trees and widespread power…

Tropical Storm Nestor formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday, threatening the northern Gulf Coast with rising seawater, high winds and heavy rains.The…