Heavy snow and rain is expected to cause disruption in Northern Ireland on Friday and Saturday.
Wind gusts are expected to reach 50 mph overnight, with snow and rain forecast.
The cold temperatures and miserable mixture of snow and rain had people longing for more agreeable weather.
Staffordshire County Council said the floods, caused by melting snow and rain, had washed away a temporary dam it had built.
Then, when snow or rain wash them onto an ice floe, they darken its surface and thus cause it to melt faster.
The opening was delayed after more than 200 trees were brought down along the valley road in the recent heavy snow and rain, and the route became dangerous.
The gravel pit had filled to its brim with melted snow and rain, so that Caro had to edge around it on her way to catch the school bus.
Smithtown Building Department Director John Bongino said officials are concerned that the weight from the snow and rain could lead to building collapses, especially on structures with flat roofs.
The fear is that melting ice, along with increased snow and rain, could reduce the density and salinity of the top layers of the sea, making them more buoyant.
When Thomas Jefferson described the view from Monticello in 1786, he wrote, "How sublime to look down into the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!"
And Carnegie Mellon's Red Whittaker is already imaging what the next big DARPA-sponsored event could involve--perhaps a 24-hour race of robotic cars through snow and rain, or maybe team racing with coordinated convoys of driverless cars.
In China, they use artillery shells, rockets and airplanes to spray existing cloud systems with silver iodide, a compound that triggers moisture in the clouds to form ice crystals, which then fall to earth as snow or rain.
The cold snap was followed by widespread flooding caused by melting snow and heavy rain.
"We expect snow and then rain, and severe coastal flooding, " said CNN meteorologist Sarah Dillingham.
Flood defences have been put up in Worcestershire as melting snow and heavy rain raise the river levels.
BBC: Worcestershire flood barriers put up as river levels rise
Light snow or freezing rain was falling in northern areas of the state early Friday afternoon, with light rain reported elsewhere.
Local councillor Wyn Evans told the BBC melting snow and torrential rain had caused "severe flooding and destruction" in the area.
BBC: Flood fears as snow turns to rain and temperatures rise
Weather forecasts, however, call for more snow and also rain on Tuesday.
But the respite may only be temporary with forecasters predicting temperatures as low as -8C overnight and snow and heavy rain on Friday.
More than 80 flood warnings and nearly 300 alerts are in place across Britain as thawing snow and heavy rain push river levels higher.
Chicago is dealing with a foot and a half of snow, freezing rain is falling in the Northeast and the wind chill is in the 20s here in the Sonoran Desert.
After the severe weather, a cold-weather system could bring snow and freezing rain to the Midwest, beginning Wednesday, and the threat of extremely cold weather in the northern Plains states and Upper Midwest, particularly on Thursday.
In the upper Midwest, thousands of homes and businesses also lost power because of heavy wet snow, ice and wind in the past couple of days, while rain and snow raised flooding concerns in various areas of the Midwest.
"I was tired of being outside, in the rain, snow, burning heat, " she said.
He said the clay soil had absorbed recent rain and snow, making it more unstable.
Chris Sampson from Transport and Technical Services said rain and snow had made the problem worse than normal.
Bill is not in the city last night and we did okay in the rain and snow storm, so.
Rain and snow were falling when the accident occurred shortly before 9 a.m.
Those on the gridiron tough it out through anything Mother Nature brings, from rain, snow and fog to extreme temperatures.
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