Category: blizzard

Northern California Highway Shut Down by Snow Now Reopen

REDDING, Calif.—A section of a major highway in Northern California reopened Thursday afternoon after a nearly 24-hour closure caused by blizzard conditions as the latest of back-to-back storms pushed through, authorities said. Traffic resumed moving on a stretch of Interstate 5 north of the city of Redding around 1 p.m., said Haleigh Pike, a spokesperson…


Blizzard Blasts Nunavut, 135 km/h Winds Rip Off Stairs and Crush Cabins

IQALUIT—Pangnirtung mayor Eric Lawlor couldn’t see out his windows on Sunday. That’s when a day-long blizzard hit the Baffin Island community of about 1,500, shaking houses and crushing cabins. According to Environment and Climate Change Canada, winds reached 135 km/h that day. “It was like an all day thing. The wind was so strong,” Lawlor…