It's time to prepare for heavy snow this weekend as a rapidly intensifying winter storm arrives.

Such rapidly strengthening storms are capable of producing heavy rain, blizzard conditions and intense winds that can create dangerous conditions such as downed trees and power outages.

This weekend's potential winter storm over the Carolinas may bring a lot of snow or a little bit of snow. Could this storm become a bomb cyclone?

Hurricane Melissa, one of the strongest Atlantic storms ever recorded, created "extremely dangerous and life-threatening" conditions in Jamaica, according to the US National Hurricane Center. Climate ...