Heavy snow - reaching up to 20cm on higher ground - was forecast for the worst-hit areas, along with a number of yellow "be aware" warnings across the rest of the country.
Heavy snow in north-western Europe is causing severe travel disruption, including the cancellation of hundreds of flights via Frankfurt and Paris.
Secondly, if you make life difficult for yourself - perhaps by shooting into the light or in very difficult conditions such as heavy rain, driving snow or stormy seas - there will be less chance of you overlapping with other photographers' work and your images stand a chance of being far more striking.
In Minnesota, Governor Mark Dayton declared a state of emergency after communities in the south-west of the state - already struggling to restore power from an earlier ice storm - were buried under heavy snow.
To the west are the saw-edges of glacier-encrusted rock and ice, serrated by more than 30 jagged peaks heavy with snow, the highest of which is 6, 768m-high Huascaran, the tallest mountain in the tropics.
Shovel small amounts of snow at a time, especially if the snow is heavy and water-laden.
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Freezing conditions are continuing to disrupt transport in north-west Europe, although heavy snow has eased.
But the respite may only be temporary with forecasters predicting temperatures as low as -8C overnight and snow and heavy rain on Friday.
After making eight runs without hitting an ice spot or heavy snow section, and two dig-outs from face plants, I am ready to return to our womb-like boat, where sheepskin booties await.
Heavy snow fell across southern and Midwestern states -- including Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri in February.
Gov. Bob McDonnell declared a state of emergency, state police extended shifts and National Guard called up 100 troops for snow duty as inches of wet, heavy snow fell across parts of the state -- knocking out power to nearly 180, 000 people.
He also said a "spin-off" storm was expected to create heavy snow in New England, and could push Boston to a February record.
The result left Israel second above the Portuguese on goal difference, with both teams four points adrift of Russia -- whose match in Northern Ireland was postponed until Saturday due to heavy snow.
As the heavy, wet snow fell in Chicago, residents were working their shovels and snow-blowers.
About 50 million people in a 800-mile (1, 300-km) swathe of the US are threatened by heavy rain, wind and snow.
Snow and heavy rains had fallen over most Syrian cities in the past day, the state-run SANA news agency reported Wednesday.
Municipal workers from New York to Boston labored through the night Saturday in snow-bound communities, where some motorists had to be rescued after spending hours stuck in wet, heavy snow.
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