Snowstorm strands Midwest travel issues

Snow will fall on about 25 million people from parts of Nebraska and South Dakota to portions of Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, MI and Ontario.

The first significant snowstorm of the season is creating hazardous travel conditions and causing hundreds of flight cancellations.

Meanwhile, Midway worldwide Airport, located in the southeast part of the Windy City, had 200 cancelled and just over 100 delayed departing and arriving flights, according to Flightaware.

“The snow that moved into the Great Lakes on Saturday first spread snow across the central Plains on Friday, near the border of South Dakota and Nebraska into Iowa”, AccuWeather Meteorologist Kristina Pydynowski. A blast of much colder air was following the storm.

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

Chicago’s O’Hare worldwide Airport, one of the busiest in the world, had recorded 4 inches of snow by early Saturday with more falling.

A pedestrian in Berrien Springs, in western MI, walks during the first significant snowfall of the season.

Marengo is about 65 miles northwest of Chicago.

The snow will taper off Saturday morning and we will have clearing skies, but the winds will stay gusty throughout the day. Alizha Demunck, a clerk at the city’s Little Chocolates candy store, says the weather didn’t slow weekend shoppers from getting handmade chocolates.

“Northern IN, we’re used to snow”.

The warning will be in effect until 1 a.m. Sunday, according to the National Weather Service’s website. In Detroit, the heaviest snow will occur later Saturday afternoon into Saturday evening.

The South Dakota Department of Transportation issued a no-travel advisory due to weather midday Friday for a large area across the southeastern portion of the state.

The storm will pass on Sunday, which should be sunny with highs in the low thirties and lows near twenty degrees.

Regardless of the amount of snow, untreated wet and slushy areas will freeze at night as temperatures plunge into the 20s and even dip into the teens in a few locations.