Chicago Area Digs Out From Record Storm

It’s the second day of disruptions there caused by a pre-winter storm.

Hundreds of flights were canceled Saturday. Almost 800 flights were canceled at both airports by 4:45 p.m. Saturday. Batavia had 7.5 inches by late afternoon.

Areas to the the north and west of the city were hardest hit.

In the southern Wisconsin town of Janesville, between 10 and 20 inches of snow has fallen.

In the northern IN city of LaPorte, the storm had dropped about four inches of snow by noon Saturday.

Alizha Demunck, who works at the Little Chocolates candy store, says the snow wasn’t slowing shoppers from seeking out handmade chocolates. Local police said one woman was struck by a vehicle after getting out of her vehicle. The record snowfall for O’Hare was set at 3 inches in 1893.

The nation’s largest distributor of treated drinking water became the largest landowner in a remote California farming region for good reason: The alfalfa-growing area is first in line to get Colorado River water. Winter weather advisories are posted for multiple parts of MI, including Detroit, and northern Indiana.

In Capron, Illinois, about 60 miles northwest of Chicago, village employee Robert Lukes was clearing sidewalks Saturday after more than a foot of snow fell. Snow fell at a rate of 2 inches an hour at times, Friedlein said.

The first snowfall of the season brought sums ranging from a couple inches to 20 from South Dakota through MI prior in the weekend.

Chicago’s O’Hare global Airport had 5.4 inches as of 6 a.m. Saturday. Rain will begin falling on Wednesday and continue at least through Friday. Up to a foot of snow could fall on Chautauqua County, east of Erie, Pennsylvania, Cuomo said. “It’s just another snowstorm in northern IL”.

National Weather Service meteorologist Amy Seeley told AP that it is unusual for the area’s first snowfall to dump more than six inches. But it also fashioned a wintry backdrop to the annual Magnificent Mile Lights Festival, transporting Chicagoans into a life-sized holiday snow globe. Fargo, North Dakota, could dip to 11 degrees by early Sunday. But operations were expected to return to normal on Sunday with only a few cancellations.

“Northern IN, we’re used to snow”.