Some models and plenty of social media hype have proposed that a snowstorm is ahead this weekend. We look at what might be fact or fiction.

Multiple systems are pushing across the Northern Tier of the country this week, bringing heavy snow to the Great Lakes, Ohio Valley and Northeast.

Heavy snow and very limited visibility contributed to a massive pileup that shut down a huge stretch of the Indiana Toll Road near Elkhart on Wednesday afternoon. Indiana State Police said the first crash happened around 4 p.m. As troopers responded, crash after crash kept happening. New video shows crews working to clear the wreckage that had the highway shut down and traffic at standstill for hours Wednesday night.

Local authorities are describing the massive waves as “historic and unprecedented” in an incident that left one dead and dozens injured.

The cold, long winter of 1852 caused the Susquehanna River in Maryland to freeze to a depth of 2 to 3 feet, prompting a creative solution to the sudden inability of ferries to transport cargo across the river.