Blizzards, severe storms, heat wave hit U.S. with array of extreme weather

From a astonishing heatwave successful California to blizzards burying parts of the Midwest and storms rolling implicit the East Coast, chaotic upwind enactment much than fractional the nation's colonisation successful the way of utmost conditions Monday.

Airport delays and cancellations piled up successful immoderate of the nation's largest airports, with much than 4,700 flights canceled crossed the U.S., and galore schools closed aboriginal successful the mid-Atlantic states, wherever precocious winds were successful the forecast.

Tracking work FlightAware said that arsenic of 6 a.m., much than 2,100 flights were canceled oregon delayed Tuesday. In addition, travelers were facing jams astatine airdrome information checkpoints arsenic a partial authorities shutdown continued to strain screener staffing.

Poweroutage.com said much than a half-million homes and businesses were successful the acheronian aboriginal Tuesday, chiefly successful Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York and Massachusetts.

Torrential rains flooded homes and washed retired roads successful Hawaii, portion adust and windy conditions were charging the largest wildfire successful Nebraska's history.

In Washington, the House and Senate postponed votes and national agencies told workers to spell location early. But by precocious afternoon, the expected unsmooth upwind had failed to make and a tornado ticker expired.

The backstage upwind work AccuWeather calculated that much than 200 cardinal radical were nether menace Monday of immoderate benignant of unsafe weather.

Those ranged from utmost vigor and wildfire advisories to flood and frost watches from the National Weather Service.

The tempest strategy that dropped snowfall by the ft successful the Midwest, causing whiteout conditions successful immoderate areas, barreled toward the East Coast, dropping dense rain, threatening precocious winds and prompting aggregate tornado warnings.

The biggest menace for terrible upwind stretched from New Jersey to Virginia.

In New York City, officials warned of the imaginable for swift upwind gusts that could sound down histrion limbs.

Four people, including a child, died Monday day successful New York City aft a occurrence successful a three-story flat gathering dispersed during dense winds.

The National Weather Service confirmed 4 tornadoes successful Missouri connected Sunday that caused extortion and histrion damage. No injuries were reported.

Blizzard conditions continued successful the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes connected Monday aft the tempest walloped parts of Wisconsin and Michigan with respective feet of snow.

Snow falls during a blizzard connected March 16, 2026 successful Madison, Wisconsin. The metropolis declared a snowfall exigency and the National Weather Service declared a Winter Weather Advisory. Joe Timmerman / Wisconsin Watch via Getty Images

Since Saturday, astir 3 feet had fallen successful the bluish Wisconsin municipality of Mountain.

A vigor dome implicit the Southwest volition propulsion temperatures good into the triple digits successful Arizona astir of the week, overmuch earlier than normal.

California is starting to consciousness similar summer, too. The San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento volition spot temperatures pushing toward 90 degrees by midweek.

"This is technically inactive winter," L.A. Mayor Karen Bass said Monday. "This is not mean for March, obviously, but it is simply a motion of however clime alteration is impacting our city."

While temperatures are expected to scope 100 degrees, the menace of wildfires astir Los Angeles is comparatively debased due to the fact that winds volition beryllium light.

Phoenix is expected to person 5 consecutive days of triple-digit temperatures this week — lone erstwhile before, successful 1988, has the metropolis recorded a 100 grade time successful March, DePodwin said.

"This is simply a vigor question that we person not seen earlier successful recorded past successful the Southwest," said AccuWeather meteorologist Dan DePodwin.

Dry and windy conditions were charging the largest wildfire successful Nebraska's history. Three fires successful the authorities person consumed much than 1,140 quadrate miles of mostly grassland.

"Mother Nature is throwing a doozy astatine us," Gov. Jim Pillen said Monday.

Unrelenting rains triggered landslides, washed distant roads and flooded homes and farmland successful Hawaii implicit the weekend.

All of Hawaii's islands had spots with much than 15 inches of rainfall portion parts of Maui were overwhelmed with treble that amount, the upwind work said.

While the worst of the tempest has passed, much dense rainfall is expected aboriginal this week. Maui Mayor Richard Bissen said determination were nary reports of injuries oregon deaths and crews were assessing damage.

Forecasters said the East Coast storms were expected to permission sharply colder upwind successful their wake.

The tempest stuck astir parts of the Northeast until Tuesday morning. Wind chills beneath freezing were expected to scope the Gulf Coast and the Florida Panhandle with warnings successful effect crossed the Southeast and successful parts of Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Texas, forecasters warned.

To the north, rainfall was expected to alteration implicit to snowfall down the acold beforehand with dense snowfall imaginable successful the cardinal Appalachians of West Virginia.