All posts tagged "Winter"

As a brutal winter storm bears down on Iowa, former President Donald Trump is one of many candidates forced to cancel campaign events ahead of the caucuses next week, reported NBC News on Friday evening.

"Former President Donald Trump, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson were all forced to cancel campaign events," said the report. However, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy is attempting to move forward with campaign events regardless.

Meanwhile, according to the report, "DeSantis plans to fly to South Carolina, not New Hampshire, immediately after the Iowa caucuses."
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(Reuters) - Private forecaster Accuweather.com said on Wednesday that heavy snow and extreme cold should be expected in the north central United States, especially in the Chicago area, in the coming winter.

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US space agency said it is giving up on trying to contact its Spirit rover on Mars, saying the robot explorer likely froze to death in the Red Planet's harsh winter.

GENEVA (AFP) – Depletion of the ozone layer over the Arctic has reached record levels, the UN weather agency WMO said Tuesday, blaming harmful substances in the atmosphere and a very cold winter.

CHICAGO – A large swathe of the US South and Midwest still digging out from last week's huge snowfall faced more wintry weather Wednesday as the fifth major storm of the season forced several states to close schools and kept many residents homebound.

CHICAGO – The central United States was caught in the grip of a historic winter storm Wednesday, buried by drifting snow and sleet that ground air and road travel to a halt.