If the world is getting warmer, why is the US battling freezing winds and ice?

HEAVY snow has blanketed much of the central US following a massive winter storm that left residents battling frigid temperatures and icy roads.

Some parts of Michigan and Ohio are expected to get up to a metre of snow as the system which has battered the country since Sunday makes its way northwards up into Canada.

"This one came roaring through, it came in off the west coast, started really getting put together in Utah and then just blasted across the plains," Pat Slattery, a spokesman for the National Weather Service, said today.

"As the system moves through, back behind it all this Arctic air came pouring south out of Canada and sweeping across the plains." More...

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