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Not one but two tornadoes touched down in New York, causing destruction in its path.

New York state officials say the risk for wildfires is up due to rising temperatures, gusty winds and low relative humidity.

The National Weather Service says the spring flood threat is above normal across the Adirondacks of northern New York and most of eastern, north-central and northeastern Vermont.

Lake Champlain has frozen over for the first time in four years.

A National Weather Service expert says up to 16 inches (41 centimeters) of snow could cover the ground by Thursday morning in parts of upstate New York.

A late winter storm dropped more than a foot of snow on parts of the northeastern U.S. overnight — prompting school closures across the region, knocking out power to thousands and slowing the Monday morning commute to a crawl.

According to the National Weather Service, a major winter storm may be moving up the East Coast this weekend and drop heavy snow in Upstate New York, particularly in the eastern half of the state.

Northern and western New York are still gripped in bone-chilling cold following a winter storm that has claimed at least three lives.

The painfully cold weather system that put much of the Midwest into a historic deep freeze was expected to ease Thursday, though temperatures could still tumble to record lows in some places before the region begins to thaw out.

Falling temperatures replaced the weekend's falling snow Monday as bitter cold and gusty winds swept across the eastern United States.