Weather

Last week's frigid weather included one of the coldest seven-day stretches in North Carolina's history, and on January 7th, the temperature hit minus 4 degrees in Raleigh, a new record low.

The National Weather Service says there's a good chance that some locations will set temperature records today, as arctic air settles in after a massive winter storm.

As the "bomb cyclone" intensifies, visibility has dropped to nearly zero in some sections of the snow band. Serious flooding and hurricane-force winds have been observed in coastal Massachusetts.

As a winter weather system that's been grabbing the headlines makes it way along the coast, the big story in its wake will be the frosty temperatures.

As the East Coast braces for a winter storm, yes, it's rather chilly. It's colder in South Dakota than it is at the South Pole. It's colder in Jacksonville, Fla., than in Juneau, Alaska.

2018 is off to a frigid start. From Texas to the mid-Atlantic to the Ohio Valley, temperatures are significantly lower than average, with sometimes fatal consequences.

Light rain and mist and temperatures below freezing turned New Year's Eve into an icy mess across much of the North Carolina mountains.

After families woke up on Christmas morning to find a blanket of snow outside, the National Weather Service says the winter weather will continue throughout the Northeast and the Great Lakes region.

UPDATED: 3:20 P.M. 

A NASA visualization uses computer models to show how recent hurricanes shifted salt from the Atlantic, dust from the Sahara and smoke from fires in Portugal and the Pacific Northwest.