Temperatures across most of the nation's heartland all the way to the Southeast and the mid-Atlantic will warm up a bit on Valentine's Day.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Canadian province of Ontario won't approve any proposed off-shore wind power projects until there is further scientific research on their impact on the environment.

A large winter storm forecast to unfold could adversely affect well over 100 million people next week from the Rockies to the Plains, South, Midwest and Northeast if it develops to its full potential.

As we say goodbye to 2010, AccuWeather.com took a look at the unusual and extreme weather events that hit the United States over the past year.

The monster storm and its accumulating snow are still "on" for the eastern Great Lakes and parts of the Midwest, central Appalachians, and neighboring Canada this weekend.

The lake-effect snow event that has been burying places downwind of the Great Lakes the past several days can be considered historical for Syracuse, N.Y.