Severe U.S. Weather and Disasters

A fierce storm system slammed the Upper Midwest with blizzard conditions—parts of Wisconsin and Michigan reported as much as 2 feet of snow (with another foot possible in Upper Michigan), prompting school closures, a southern Minnesota no‑travel advisory, deployment of the Minnesota National Guard and thousands of flight cancellations including over 600 at Minneapolis–Saint Paul. The same system put roughly 11.5 million people under blizzard warnings (and millions more under winter‑storm and heat alerts) and set up a severe‑weather corridor from South Carolina to Maryland that the NWS warned could produce widespread damaging winds and several tornadoes Monday across Mid‑Atlantic metros including Raleigh, Richmond and Washington, D.C.