Blizzard Blankets Midwest With Snow, Blows Eastward
A blizzard swept across the Midwest on Saturday, bringing dangerous frigid temperatures and heavy snow, but forecasters say the storm should moderate as it drifts eastward.
The first wintry blast of the season, hitting two weeks ahead of the official start of winter, dumped as much as 36 inches of snow in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula overnight. East Coast states, which got an average of three to five inches overnight.
Arctic air, moving through the Ohio Valley on Saturday, should arrive on the East Coast today, driving temperatures down to the mid-teens, about 30 degrees below normal.
It is expected to remain coldest in the Midwest, where temperatures plummeted to near and below zero across much of the area. Windchill readings measured as low as minus 70 in northeastern Minnesota overnight.
In Chicago, temperatures hovered just over zero and the windchill fell to minus 40, with an expected drop to minus 50.
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