A 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck off Alaska's Kodiak Island early Tuesday, prompting a tsunami warning for a large swath of the state's coast and sending some residents fleeing to higher ground.
A large swath of northern New York is encased in ice and snow after days of lake-effect storms followed by an arctic cold front sending temperatures well below zero.
Temperatures have plunged well below zero across northern New York, with dangerously low wind-chill conditions reported in areas near the Canadian border.
Officials in a town near Lake Ontario's eastern end are asking residents to avoid driving on local roads so crews can remove 5 feet of snow that has fallen since Christmas Day.
Forecasters are calling for up to 2 feet of additional snow for areas east of Lake Ontario that have already received as much as 32 inches from lake-effect storms over the long Christmas weekend.