Tag: #blizzard

NOAA Rates March 13–17 Blizzard ‘Extreme’ as Storm Iona Paralyzes Travel Across U.S. and Canada

NOAA assigns a rare Category 5 rating to the mid-March blizzard that dumped feet of snow, spawned 51 tornadoes and triggered mass outages and flight cancellations.

#winterstorm, #blizzard, #extremeweather, #travel, #poweroutages

Category 5 March Blizzard Shuts Mackinac Bridge, Paralyzes Upper Midwest and Sparks Tornadoes in South

A sprawling March 2026 storm earned NOAA’s rare Category 5 rating after burying the Upper Midwest, closing highways, cutting power and spawning tornadoes.

#blizzard, #uppermidwest, #noaa, #tornadoes, #extremeweather

Mid-March storm lashes U.S. with blizzards, ice, tornadoes and record heat

A sprawling March 13–17 storm brought blizzards and ice to the Midwest, tornadoes to the South and East, wildfire conditions on the Plains and unusual heat in the Southwest.

#extremeweather, #blizzard, #tornadoes, #poweroutages, #climatechange

Weather Whiplash: Blizzard Conditions, Record Heat and Flood Threats Strike the U.S. at Once

A warped jet stream brings blizzards to the Upper Midwest, summerlike heat to the Southwest, and flooding rains from the Pacific Northwest to Hawaii.

#weather, #blizzard, #heatwave, #atmosphericriver, #climate

Blizzard of 2026 Shatters Snow Records, Knocks Out Power Across the Northeast

A bomb-cyclone nor’easter dumped up to three feet of snow, grounded travel, cut power to 600,000 and left at least 13 dead across five states.

#blizzard, #noreaster, #poweroutages, #northeast, #climate

Blizzard, then bitter cold: Western Alaska’s winter swings upend life in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta

A Jan. 4–5 blizzard shut down travel across Alaska’s Y-K Delta, part of a string of storms and temperature swings linked to a warming Bering Sea.

#alaska, #blizzard, #climatechange, #extremecold, #yukonkuskokwimdelta

Winter Storm Ezra Slams Holiday Travel With Blizzard Conditions, Power Outages and Flight Cancellations

A rapidly intensifying “bomb cyclone” snarled U.S. holiday travel, closing highways, canceling flights and knocking out power across the Midwest and Northeast.

#winterstorm, #travel, #poweroutages, #aviation, #blizzard