Capital Weather Gang - The winter the Arctic shifted south

Last week, Chicagoans were treated to one of that city's worst blizzards of all time. Featuring several rounds of thundersnow - a relatively rare phenomena that has been in abundant supply this winter, making appearances in D.C., New York, Boston, and now Chicago - winds gusting to between 50 and 70 miles per hour, and upwards of 20 inches of snowfall, the storm paralyzed one of the most battle tested cities for dealing with wintry onslaughts.

The eerie sight of hundreds of stranded and abandoned cars along Lakeshore Drive, a scene straight out of the global warming disaster movie "The Day After Tomorrow," must've made New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, whose administration was roundly criticized for botching cleanup efforts after the "Boxing Day Blizzard" in December, feel satisfied that it's not just the Big Apple that can be snarled by a snowstorm.