Weather

Record cold weather is expected across the Inland Northwest today and tonight as frigid arctic air flows into the region behind Monday’s snowfall. The low tonight, likely to occur before daybreak Wednesday, is predicted to be 5 degrees in Spokane, which would break the record of 7 set March 11, 1950. A high in Spokane today of 21 would break the March 10 record for the coldest high, 26 degrees in 1950.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A potent March snowstorm blanketed much of the Southeast with snow Sunday before barreling toward the Northeast, where officials prepared snowplows and road salt for a wintry assault. The icy blast threatened to drop up to a foot of snow in the Philadelphia area, 13 inches in New York and 15 inches across southern New England late Sunday.

PORTLAND, Maine – A winter storm blew through northern New England on Monday, dumping 2 feet of snow in spots, forcing hundreds of schools to cancel classes and leaving tens of thousands of homes and businesses without power. More than 127,000 utility customers in Maine remained without electricity Monday evening after wet, heavy snow snapped tree limbs, power lines and utility poles.