The National Weather Service issued an updated winter storm warning at 4:15 p.m. on Monday valid from Tuesday 4 p.m. until Thursday 10 a.m. for South Central Oregon Cascades.

A powerful winter storm system moving across the Great Lakes and Northeast is bringing snow and ice, frigid temperatures and possible whiteout conditions.

Dry weather is about to return to the Bay Area. Honest. To hear the National Weather Service tell it, the transition from the wet days simply did not move as fast as forecasters anticipated.

Warnings issued by the Met Office, with the first named storm of the year due to arrive after the coldest night of winter so far saw UK temperatures drop as low as -12.5C.

More than 300 schools are closed for another day in Anglesey, Bridgend, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Neath Port Talbot, Gwynedd, Pembrokeshire, Powys and Wrexham with poor road conditions making travel difficult.

Social-media users were sympathetic toward the passengers, with one saying: "This would be my personal nightmare."

Between January 5 and January 9, 1998, Maine saw a generational ice storm. Waves of freezing rain dumped up to 3 inches of freezing rain on Maine through that week, leading to one of the worst disasters in state history.