Snow, freezing rain on tap in Northeast

ALBANY, N.Y. - A storm system slid across the Northeast with snow, sleet and freezing rain Sunday, glazing roads and tying up air travel after blacking out thousands of customers in the Midwest.

At least 10 traffic deaths have been blamed on weather-related traffic accidents.
Winter storm warnings were in effect into Monday in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine and into Tuesday in parts of New York state. On the other side of the weather system, warnings were issued for parts of Michigan, where freezing rain and sleet was predicted to turn to all snow late Sunday.
By VALERIE BAUMAN, Associated Press Writer Sun Dec 2, 6:04 PM ET

NVDL: Why should South Africans care about the weather in the USA? Actually, we ought to care a great deal. The world's greatest consumer of heating oil will consume a lot more of the stuff if they suffer a particularly cold winter. That has an impact on the rest of us, in terms of absolute demand for fuel, and thus upward pressure on prices.