By Zoila Palma: A powerful winter storm swept across the northern United States on Dec. 29, dumping heavy snow and triggering blizzard and winter storm warnings from the Midwest to the Northeast.
The system snarled road and air travel as officials urged residents to stay off highways amid dangerous conditions.
Tens of millions of people from Minnesota and Iowa to Michigan, New York and Maine were under weather alerts, according to the National Weather Service.
Forecasters warned that snowfall totals could exceed a foot across parts of the upper Great Lakes, with up to two feet possible along the south shore of Lake Superior.
Strong winds, gusting as high as 50 mph in some areas, were expected to reduce visibility to near zero. “Travel could be very difficult to impossible,” the National Weather Service office in Marquette, Michigan, cautioned, noting that hazardous conditions would impact the Monday morning commute.
The storm knocked out power to tens of thousands of customers and disrupted transportation networks across the region.
By early morning, widespread outages were reported in Michigan, New York and Ohio, while major roadways were closed due to impassable snow, including portions of Interstate 35 in Minnesota. Airports across the Great Lakes region experienced mounting delays and cancellations as crews worked to deice aircraft and clear runways.
The storm was forecast to peak in intensity on Dec. 29 before ushering a surge of Arctic air southward, sharply ending a recent stretch of unseasonably warm weather.
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By Zoila Palma: A powerful winter storm swept across the northern United States on Dec. 29, dumping heavy snow and triggering blizzard and winter storm warnings from the Midwest to the Northeast. The system snarled road and air travel as officials urged residents to stay off highways amid dangerous conditions. Tens of millions of people
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