Less than a week after a blizzard paralyzed the East Coast, it was the Midwest’s turn to deal with a debilitating snow storm – and a monkey wrench into holiday travel plans.
A major winter storm system moved slowly and deliberately across the Midwest and Great Plains on Christmas Eve, dumping several feet of snow on Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Minnesota and South Dakota, among other states. The massive weather system also brought with it wind gusts as high as 67 miles per hour.
With snow falling from Texas to the Canadian border – and from the Rockies to Lake Michigan – the sheer breadth of the system had meteorologists urging caution.
“This is not a storm to be messed with,” a National Weather Service spokesman told AFP.
The storm forced delays for tens of thousands of people on one of the busiest travel days of the year.
To track this system as it heads east, check out The Weather Channel.
By Snow Bound Carolina Boy December 27, 2009 at 2:16 am
I’m visiting family in Minnesota. It isn’t a blizzard. Never was one. Just a lot of snow. Blizzard require lots of wind with the snow. Still it sucks. But it isn’t a blizzard.