Tens of thousands of holiday travelers stranded as wild weather heads east

The usual year-end lists of “unprecedented” climate and extreme weather events — including this week's storm across much of the US, and of course Hurricane Sandy — have been bombarding us of late. With them comes the excited claims repeated by

The winter weather that brought snow and ice to North Texas has also brought delays to travelers at DFW International Airport.

The Weather Channel's David Malkoff reports from Fishers, Ind., where snow and wind are expected to increase over the next few hours, with record-breaking snow possible for much of the Midwest. By Tracy Connor, NBC News. A wicked winter storm was

While 2011 established a record for the number of individual U.S. weather disasters that caused at least $1 billion in damage, 2012 is expected to eclipse 2011 in terms of the aggregate amount of damage done (in terms of dollars). This is according to

While 2011 established a record for the number of individual U.S. weather disasters that caused at least $1 billion in damage, 2012 is expected to eclipse 2011 in terms of the aggregate amount of damage done (in terms of dollars). This is according to