At least 60 million people across dozens of states were under winter weather alerts over the weekend as a massive winter storm swept across the US from the Rockies to the East Coast. The system arrived in the Midwest late Saturday, dropping up to a foot of snow in many locations. Some parts of eastern Kansas reported as much as 18 inches; see an updated map of totals here.
Lengthy stretches of highways were shut down in a number of locations, including an 18-mile segment of I-70 in Kansas. As of early this morning, almost 10,000 flights had been canceled or delayed and more than 300,000 customers were without power. No deaths had been reported as of this writing. The snow comes along with a mass of Arctic air expected to drop temperatures significantly below average from North Dakota to as far south as the Gulf Coast.
See photos from across the affected states here.
