While home-station personnel at Dyess Air Force Base battled severe winter snowstorms to keep their airfield open, Airmen deployed 2,300 miles away were breaking ground in the tropical heat of the Caribbean. Despite the extreme contrast in climates, these teams operated with a singular focus: projecting combat airpower in support of Operation SOUTHERN SPEAR.
A snowstorm hitting the Rocky Mountains this week could end up being the biggest all season, forecasters said.
May is expected to feel like December in parts of Colorado as a significant snowstorm is forecast to hit the state on Tuesday.
Snow in May is not rare in the Rocky Mountains. But this year, any snow at all is unusual.
“Conditions were worse than a whiteout (if that’s possible).”
The disruptions come at an already challenging time for air travel, in part because the shutdown that began Feb. 14.
Due to weather across the Midwest and South, ground stops were implemented at several airports.
Memphis is among the cities most at risk of tornadoes on Sunday. On Monday, the storm system will shift east.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been reluctant to force people indoors, even in dire weather. But conditions, whether on the streets or in shelters, can be dangerous.
On Monday's episode of "Elizabeth Vargas Reports": A record-breaking storm slams the East Coast from Virginia to Maine, dumping more than three feet of snow in parts of the Northeast. Where is the storm taking aim next? And the latest on the violence in Mexico after the killing of a notorious cartel leader. Are Americans in Mexico safe? Elizabeth Vargas speaks to a journalist on the ground and a former DEA agent who helped capture El Chapo. Plus, more than two months since Rob and Michelle Reiner were discovered stabbed to death inside their Los Angeles home, their son Nick finally enters a plea in the case following the killing of his parents.