Winter Storm Hercules: Snow, Wind for Northeast

We didn't get far into 2014 before the year's first major snowstorm took aim on parts of the Midwest and Northeast. Based on our criteria for naming winter storms, The Weather Channel named this system Winter Storm Hercules. (MORE: Minute-by-Minute 

Lennon, for John Lennon (1940-1980), an English songwriter, musician, and singer who rose to worldwide fame as a founding member of the Beatles. (USGS/NASA/Getty Image, file). Follow @ldattaro. At the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Baltimore, 

Residents of Salinas, Calif. were baffled and amazed by a mysterious crop circle discovered in a field Monday morning. (MORE: Did Weather Cause a Train to Derail and Explode?) As seen in the photos above, the design is highly detailed, but the locals

Residents of Salinas, Calif. were baffled and amazed by a mysterious crop circle discovered in a field Monday morning. (MORE: Did Weather Cause a Train to Derail and Explode?) As seen in the photos above, the design is highly detailed, but the locals

Aircraft and crews may not be where they are supposed to be, even if the weather is clear. As colder air AccuWeather.com Winter Weather Center For some locations it will bring the coldest weather in several years.