Cold

By Elizabeth Campbell Bloomberg News

(Reuters) — Frigid temperatures across a large swath of the United States this week followed by warmer conditions could aid the spread of a fatal pig disease now in 22 states, affecting hundreds of thousands of pigs, a swine veterinarian said on Thursday. “The virus likes cold,...

Cold snaps have become more infrequent. Between 1970 and 1989, a dozen such events occurred, but there were only two in the 1990s and then none until Monday.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Out with the Arctic, in with the Pacific. Just three days after the weather was so cold it prompted many schools in the Dakotas to call off classes, temperatures across the two states Thursday are expected to be in the teens, 20s, 30s, and even 40s. National...

ATLANTA (AP) — An arctic blast eased its grip on much of the U.S. on Wednesday, with winds calming and the weather warming slightly a day after temperature records — some more than a century-old — shattered up and down the Eastern Seaboard. In Atlanta, where a record low...

NEW YORK/MILWAUKEE (Reuters) -— A deadly blast of arctic air shattered decades-old temperature records as it enveloped the eastern United States on Tuesday, snarling air, road and rail travel, driving energy prices higher and overwhelming shelters for homeless people. At least...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Schools in the Dakotas are getting back to normal after many called off classes during a day of extremely cold weather. Schools were reopening Tuesday, though some were starting classes later in the morning. Many closed for the day Monday when temperatures...

Mail carrier Michelle Timmerman was bundled in three layers Monday morning as she walked her route around northern Mitchell. Timmerman has been a mail carrier for 14 years and said she just deals with weather as it comes. Monday she wore long johns, ski pants and insulated sweat...

SIOUX FALLS(AP) — The cold weather blanketing the Dakotas is dangerous not only for people but also for animals. Cattle are hardy animals and can survive extreme cold as long as they have adequate feed and shelter. But the cold can kill calves. South Dakota rancher Jack Dye...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — There's cold. And then there's subzero, frostbite cold. Record-breaking frigid temperatures will blanket the Midwest beginning Sunday, part of a "polar vortex," that one meteorologist says will send piles of North Pole air down into the U.S. These below-zero...