Nation : Storms Bring Snow, Dust to Plains
A blustery late-winter storm dumped up to 18 inches of snow in the upper Great Lakes today as a cold front to the south unleashed fierce thunderstorms and dust storms turned skies a butterscotch color in the Central Plains.
The weather was blamed for six traffic deaths--three in Minnesota, two in Kansas and one in Indiana. The snowstorm came from a deep low pressure system that developed east of the Rocky Mountains and intensified as it reached the Great Lakes, said Don Baker, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Ann Arbor, Mich.
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