Maine has some of the darkest skies east of the Mississippi River.

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Philip Dutart Carter, the scion of a notable journalism family who invested in alternative weekly newspapers in Louisiana before turning his hand to real estate, died Jan. 5 at his Camden, Maine, home. He was 85. His daughter, Cecilia Carter Monahan, confirmed the death.

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Residents across the country from the Northern Plains to the tip of Maine are bracing for dangerously low temperatures

A wide-ranging storm has been forecast to move along the Eastern United States this week, bringing with it the potential for snow, ice and thunderstorms in multiple states across the country. Much of the country has already faced challenging weather this month.

Millions of people across the northern Gulf Coast braced Tuesday for a rare winter storm that's expected to scatter heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain around the Deep South as a blast of Arctic air plunges much of the eastern U.S. into a deep freeze.

Most of the United States is being assailed with extreme winter weather this week as Arctic air blasts south from Canada, snow tracks up the Northeast coast and a potentially crippling winter storm takes aim at the South.

The Old Farmer's Almanac, which has been in business since 1792, recently released its spring weather forecast. The outlook? "Warmer-than-normal temperatures for most of the country, with a few exceptions: southern and central California, Desert Southwest, southern Florida, and western Ohio Valley, where it will be near to below normal."