Winter
On Japan's Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route, huge walls of snow tower over a 1,640-foot sightseeing path. The area sees an average 23 feet of snow each year and when the snow is cleared from the road, resultant snow drifts create walls 60 feet high. But snow walls aren't unique to Japan. Paths carved through tens of feet of snow create snow walls around the world, from Austria to Colorado. At left, cars pass through Yuki-no-Otani (snow walls) in Toyama, Hokuriku, Japan. ...
A large winter storm moved in over the nation's heartland on Wednesday morning and is expected to last until Thursday evening. The storm could bring feet of snow and ice from Colorado through Illinois. A man clears snow from the sidewalks around Friends University in Wichita, Kan., as heavy snow falls on Wednesday morning, Feb. 20, 2013. ...
A massive blizzard lashed the Northeast Friday, Feb. 8, and early Saturday, Feb. 9, grounding flights and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses. Click through for photos. At left, Eric Lessard heaves a load of snow over his car, Sunday morning after it was blocked in by drifting snow in Portland, Maine. A blizzard dumped a record 31.9 inches of snow on the city. ...