Snow in Tucson, Ice in San Antonio

There has been some wild weather out West this year. We got about 3 inches of snow the other day - here in Southern Indiana - it's been pretty mild here so far this year.

Snow paints Tucson white, ice snarls traffic

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - The worst of rare snow that painted mountains and yards white was over Monday for most of southeastern Arizona, but frigid hard-freeze temperatures from a winter storm that pushed across the state were expected to make an overnight encore.

Ice on the heels of rain, sleet and snow snarled traffic across much of the lower part of the state Monday.

The National Weather Service said temperatures were expected to dip to 28 degrees in the Tucson area, 24 in Douglas, 23 in Sierra Vista, 22 in Nogales and 18 in Bisbee, where some 8 inches of snow fell Monday.

An additional inch was expected around Douglas, but the storm was headed southeast from there.

Light snows fell across much of the region Sunday night and early Monday, with up to 3 inches of snow in some parts of Tucson.

Texas, Okla. shiver in grip of latest winter storm

SAN ANTONIO - A bone-rattling blast of sleet and snow kept Texas and Oklahoma residents shivering in its icy grip, while a blizzard north of Los Angeles caused big-rigs to jackknife.

At least 65 storm-related deaths have been reported in nine states since Friday, including 10 in Texas and 23 in Oklahoma. The Alamo was closed Wednesday, as was a 300-mile stretch of Interstate 10 in Texas from Fort Stockton to San Antonio.

Much of the brunt of the latest Southern storms was to move east Thursday - but the reprieve may be short-lived. Another barrage was to bring up to 8 inches snow to the Plains by late Friday...

Snow accumulations were light by some other regions' standards - the Dallas area topped out at 3 inches - but hundreds of airline flights were canceled and tens of thousands of electricity customers lost power...

No place in Oklahoma has been harder hit than McAlester, where many stores were operating on generator power. At the E-Z Mart, store manager Becky Clayton was selling out of bags of ice, soda, water and potato chips. With most restaurants and cafes closed down here, customers also made a run on her deli...

Ice coated power lines throughout McAlester, and nearly 1,000 linemen, tree-trimmers and support workers from Kansas, Louisiana, Texas and Tennessee were there Wednesday to repair the damage...

Freezing rain and some snow showers were reported across South Carolina early Thursday morning as some school districts delayed the start of classes.

In California, a four-night cold snap wiped out as much as three-quarters of the state's citrus and harmed virtually every other winter crop, from avocados to flowers.