Anyone who’s grown up in Buffalo or even spent a few years here has stories of the big ones. Lots of us remember the Blizzard of ‘77 with drifts so high kids sledded off rooftops, and there was the 2006 “October Surprise” that flattened trees and killed power for a week.

Image of Buffalo Bills Stadium Nov. 21,2014. Image comes from Buffalo Bills Twitter account.

Troopers in all-terrain vehicles and rescue crews working without sleep set out Wednesday to reach drivers trapped in a ferocious winter storm that dumped more than 5 feet of snow outside Buffalo, New York — with plenty more on the way.

Not even a blizzard can stop some people from carving out a killer wave, brah. Despite freezing temperatures and massive snowfall that rocked upstate New York earlier this week, athletes Kevin Cullen and Christian Edie of WNY Expeditioners made the dangerous decision to surf Lake Erie's bodacious waves on Tuesday in Sunset Bay, New York.

Snowstorms and record low temperatures whacked much of the country this week -- and there's more coming Wednesday.

Picture from the New York State Police.

Cold temperatures across the U.S. are highly unusual for November. Great Lakes area gets heavy lake-effect snow.

Parts of New York are measuring the season's first big snowfall in feet, rather than inches, as nearly 3 feet blanketed the Buffalo area Tuesday, forcing the closure of a 105-mile stretch of the state Thruway. The Thruway Authority says white-out conditions have closed Interstate 90.

Huge masses of air forced into unusual patterns.

The United States is preparing to experience some extreme weather this weekend, if we are to believe forecasts from The National Weather Service.

Typhoon Nuri in the Western Pacific will likely cause extreme weather for the Northern Pacific and North America in the next 5-10 days.

Aftermath of a January 2005 ice storm in Geneva, Switzerland. Temperatures were reported to be around 14° F with winds up to 60 MPH.

Forget your smartphone, unplug your electrical devices, sleep by a wood stove on a bed of fir branches — perhaps with your pet — and only a canvas wall between you and the winter snow. Whether you consider this vacation scenario heaven or hell will determine if Atelier Arboreal at the foot of the Bruce Peninsula is for you.

The SALT Arctic arts fest kicks off in Norway in August to highlight fragility of sparsely populated landscapes.

IT’S happening again. South East Australia’s bitterly cold winter is delivering another blow.

For the first time in its history, the Environment Agency has assessed the state of all of its flood defences in England following the winter's storms.

Raw video of at least 40 vehicles in crash on the Ohio Turnpike during white out conditions.

Monday’s analysis by the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory shows total ice concentration on Lake Michigan at 90.1% — the most ever recorded in March. This is officially the most ice we’ve had at any time of the year since 1979 when Lake Michigan ice cover stood at 93% on Feb. 26, according to records from Environment Canada, the weather agency that publishes the most detailed ice records from the Great Lakes dating back to 1973.

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THE latest hazard caused by this winter’s devastating storms and floods has been revealed by police – unexploded bombs.