Winter storm rakes West with high wind, heavy snow

A winter storm pummeled the western U.S. on Thursday with fierce wind gusts, heavy rain and more than 2 feet of snow, closing hundreds of miles of roads and dumping a snowy mix of precipitation on the edges of Phoenix. Officials closed a road into Yosemite National Park in California after a rock the size [...]

‘Snow Hurricane’ Faces New York, Pennsylvania as Storm Nears

Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) — A winter storm threatened to dump more than a foot (30 centimeters) of snow across parts of upstate New York and New England, while forecasters warned of an even more powerful system hitting the northeast tomorrow. “You may hear it called a ‘snow hurricane’ because blizzard may not even do it [...]