1 of 2 | Millions of people across the Midwest are under winter weather warnings that promise to drop between one to three feet of snow from South Dakota to the Great Lakes overnight into Monday. File Photo Brian Kersey/UPI | License Photo
Millions of Americans across the Midwest are under weather warnings as blizzard conditions continue to blanket an area stretching from Minneapolis to Detroit.
The major winter snow is expected to drop one to three inches per hour as weather bands stretch from South Dakota to northern Michigan amid the potential for two-day snowfall records to be set in some areas, the National Weather Service said on Sunday.
Forecasters said the snow, wind and freezing rain, which started late Friday, would continue on into Monday, causing many metropolitan areas to cancel school and other events, and ask people to stay off the roads for their own safety, Fox Weather reported.
A major winter storm will bring a swath of heavy snowfall, strong winds, blizzard conditions and freezing rain to the Northern Plains into the Great Lakes region. Severe storms capable of producing widespread damaging winds, tornadoes, and some large hail may impact the Mid-south… pic.twitter.com/Tm1E0g4BSm— National Weather Service (@NWS) March 15, 2026
A 200-mile area running Rochester, Minn., to Wausau, Wisc., had already left 12 to 17 inches of snow along its path on Saturday, while the Minneapolis area saw between 7 and 10 inches.
Emergency operations centers in Michigan, Nebraska and Minnesota were activated early Sunday as the threat of even more snow on the way is expected to make visibility near impossible.
More than 2,600 flights were cancelled by Sunday afternoon — the majority of them at airports in Chicago and Minneapolis — and tens of thousands of customers in Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio and Pennsylvania were without power, The New York Times reported.
Wicked winter weather whips across United States
Melody Ashby jumps into a snow pile as her sister and mother look on, Sunday in Wadsworth Ohio. Photo by Aaron Josefczyk/UPI | License Photo
