The Buffalo Bills are offering local residents $10/hour plus game tickets if they swing by Ralph Wilson Stadium and help dig out the arena before the football game on Sunday. The Bills should pay people to dig out their trapped neighbors, not their football stadium.

More than five feet of snow is on the ground near Buffalo, New York, and a few more feet could fall by Thursday night. Some communities could see up to eight feet of snow by the time the storm is done. Governor Cuomo has called in the National Guard to dig out the buried region.

The above photo, taken from a plane above Buffalo yesterday by photographer Jeff Suhr, shows the brutal lake effect snow storm in effect over Western New York right now. Some areas are expecting up to six feet of snow by the end of the week. These snowstorms are among the most intense in the world, and the processes that create them are pretty spectacular.

People keep calling these early-season snows "unprecedented" when they're really not. What is the earliest it's ever snowed, and when does it usually start snowing? Let's take a look at some data from major cities around the country to settle the question.

Say it ain't snow!, among other cheesy local news headlines. It's probably going to snow in New York City and around Washington D.C. tonight. It won't be much, but it'll be enough to make people act like fools.

The first significant snowstorm of the year will drop between one and two feet of snow across eight states from the Rockies to the Upper Midwest by Tuesday evening. The heavy, wet snow will cause major travel disruptions and possibly some power outages.

Five inches of snow fell in central South Carolina this weekend, with flurries even reported on the coast in Charleston. One week ago today, The Vane covered the potential for a significant snowstorm in the northeast, but nobody quite expected this. Here's what happened.

Several weather models are hinting at the potential for an early-season snowfall across parts of the northeast this weekend. Weather models forecasting snow more than five days in advance are like predictions of the rapture—the odds are against it, but get ready just in case.

A series of strong storms will begin impacting the Pacific Northwest over the next couple of days, each bringing the opportunity for incredibly heavy precipitation through this weekend. Lower elevations could see up to a foot of rain, while mountain peaks could see nearly ten feet of snow.

Stop relying on long-range seasonal forecasts to tell you if it's going to be cold this winter. Those forecasts suck. Of course it's going to be cold this winter—that's why they call it winter.

No credible agency in the United States names winter storms. That being said, The Weather Channel sent out a press release this morning announcing this year’s list of winter storm names. The project continues the network’s incredibly clever viewer-run advertising campaign.

A surprise early-season snowfall in Alberta yesterday sent snow-hating residents into conniptions and snow lovers brimming with joy. However, there is no way any human in Calgary enjoyed the snow as much as this cute little pup.

Yesterday's snowfall makes this the snowiest winter* on record in Detroit, Michigan, which has seen 94.8" of snow so far this season. This breaks the record of 93.6" set all the way back in the winter of 1880-81. The Motor City typically sees around 42" of snow each year.

The recent warm weather melted enough snow that it left less than 10% of the United States covered by a blanket of evil white sky death for the first time since November 20. The trend is welcome news for snow haters, but it likely won't last much longer.

A strengthening low pressure system in western South Dakota is the source of a major blizzard that's expected to ramp up over the northern Plains today and tomorrow, bringing with it the potential for up to two feet of snow, wind gusts of 60 MPH, and cause temperatures to plummet into the single digits with wind chills as low as 15 degrees below zero.

For the last few days, weather models have hinted that there will be yet another major snow and ice storm early next week impacting areas from Missouri to the Mid-Atlantic.

The brutal winter the eastern half of North America experienced this year took a heavy toll on the continent's Great Lakes. Since late December when the first "Polar Vortex" descended and wreaked havoc, ice cover on the Great Lakes skyrocketed and topped out in the 80% range in February. It has, for the most part, stayed there ever since.

It can be hard to realize how gorgeous the atmosphere is while you're trying to shovel your 1992 Ford Taurus out of knee-deep slush, but a pair of research satellites 438 miles up in space are indifferent to your suffering and take pictures to remind you of your home planet's beauty.

As of early this morning, 53.9% of the continental United States was covered by at least a dusting of snow, marking the third highest percentage of land covered by snow this late in the season since NOAA began keeping records 48 years ago.

Less than 24 hours after the Internet latched onto the mesmerizing video of Fox 29 Philadelphia reporter Steve Keeley getting clobbered by a snowplow in New Jersey, the station's morning show figured out a way to kill everyone's fun in record time.