Jeremy Portje/(Dubuque, IA) Telegraph Herald via AP

Bolts of lightning lit up the night sky over the Dubuque County Courthouse early on the morning of April 3 in Dubuque, Iowa.

Pat Wellenbach/Associated Press

A man used a snowblower to clear a path in front of his barn in Brunswick, Maine, last week after New England was hit by a major spring snowstorm. Snowfall tallies reached 18 inches in Wilton and Hartford. Portland received 11 inches.

Rich Adams/Cheboygan (ME) Daily Tribune via AP

All was calm on the Cheboygan River as a tugboat slipped past the break wall in Cheboygan, Mich., early on the morning of April 3. Gulls could be seen soaring in the reddish-orange sunrise.

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It is spring, and the weather is - as usual - unpredictable.

Take a look around the country and you will see trees blooming, grass turning green - and snow falling in amounts more appropriate for December.

Last week, a spring storm brought up to 18 inches of snow to parts of New England, closing schools, tangling traffic and knocking out power to more than 180,000 homes and businesses.

On the plus side, the storm was expected to extend the region's spring skiing season.

And at least 24 inches of snow fell in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

Temperatures in the Lower 48 states have ranged from a low of 0 degrees at Embarrass, Minn., to a highs near 100 in Phoenix.

Areas as far south as Nebraska and Iowa had highs around the freezing mark.

Tornadoes also ravaged the Plains as spring arrived, with storms causing damage in New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. North Texas also had to deal with flooding last month.