What caused the US snowstorm?
A major snowstorm has brought areas of the north-eastern US and Atlantic Canada to a standstill, leaving hundreds of thousands of homes without electricity.
Peter Gibbs from the BBC weather centre explains how "exceptional" weather conditions have caused one of the worst snowstorms to hit the area in decades.
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