By: Tom Gardner, 12/13/2013

It's a festive scene that's adorned countless Christmas cards... and, for once, the Holy Land actually became a snow covered winter scene. The ancient city of Jerusalem, which normally basks in fierce heat, was dusted with a light covering of snow during a freak blizzard. And snow fell on the streets of Egypt for the first time in 112 years as one of the worst winter storms to hit the Middle East in living memory set in. The rare sight of pristine white precipitation greeted stunned residents of Cairo this morning who took to social media to express their shock at the unsettling weather in the usually sweltering capital.

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By: Nick Wiltgen and Chris Dolce, 12/07/2013

A bitter cold air mass has spread across the western states and into the Plains and Midwest the last couple of days. On Saturday morning, temperatures dropped as low as -39 degrees in Havre, Mont. and Jordan, Mont. In some cities, the frigid air mass has been the coldest seen in years or has broken daily record lows.

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By: Weather.com and Associated Press, 11/25/2013

The National Weather Service said late Sunday night that a winter storm warning for most of North Texas had been replaced with a winter weather advisory through noon Monday. A mix of rain, light freezing rain and light sleet was expected, but meteorologist Steve Fano with the weather service's Dallas-Fort Worth office said the temperatures would not be as cold as initially forecast. "They will still go below freezing in some places, just not as much below freezing as we initially thought," Fano said.

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Associated Press- 4/11/13, Holbrook Mohr

SHUQUALAK, Miss. (AP) — A strong spring storm that socked the Midwest with ice and heavy, wet snow made its way east, raking the South with tornadoes Thursday, with three deaths blamed on the rough weather and thousands of people without power.

Mississippi Emergency Management Agency spokesman Greg Flynn said Thursday one person died and several people were injured after a reported tornado struck Kemper County in the far eastern part of the state.

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AccuWeather.com-3/27/13, Alex Sosnowski

Snow cover on March 25, 2013, covered 48.7 percent of the country. Compared to March 25, 2012, only less than 8 percent of the nation had at least an inch of snow on the ground. Most of that was limited to the high country in the West and in northern New England.

Much of the northern United States has a blanket of snow on the ground this March, when compared to practically no snow this time last year.

A series of storms sweeping across the nation from the Northwest to the Northeast and at times dipping into part of the South has delivered near- to above-normal snowfall in many locations this winter and early spring.

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