{"id":659994,"date":"2026-03-16T15:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/659994\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:59:14","slug":"more-than-100-million-across-us-facing-extreme-weather-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/659994\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 100 million across US facing extreme weather threats"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Chaotic weather<\/a> coast to coast in the U.S. \u2014 from unusual heat in California<\/a> to damaging winds around Washington, D.C. \u2014 put over 100 million people in the path of extreme conditions on Monday.<\/p>\n

Storms across the nation\u2019s eastern half forced airlines to cancel more than 3,000 flights nationwide Monday, and many schools closed early in the mid-Atlantic states where high winds and tornadoes were in the forecast.<\/p>\n

Blizzards buried parts of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota while torrential rains flooded homes and washed out roads in Hawaii.<\/p>\n

In Washington, the House of Representatives postponed votes because of difficulty traveling with inclement weather.<\/p>\n

Airport delays and cancellations piled up Monday in some of the nation\u2019s largest airports \u2014 including those in New York, Chicago and Atlanta.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is what happens in March and April,\u201d said Brian Hurley, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. \u201cIt\u2019s a clash in the air masses<\/a>. Winter, not wanting to let go from the North, and then obviously the sun\u2019s getting a little stronger, it\u2019s warming up in the South.\u201d <\/p>\n

Forecasters warn about line of storms, tornadoes<\/p>\n

The storm system that dropped snow by the foot in the Midwest is barreling toward the East Coast with dangerously high winds and potential for \u201cproducing strong and long track tornadoes,\u201d the weather service warned Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, it\u2019s the wind that\u2019s really the threat,\u201d said Northern Illinois University meteorology professor Victor Gensini.<\/p>\n

A stretch from parts of South Carolina to Maryland appeared most likely to experience the greatest damaging winds Monday afternoon, the weather service said. That could include Raleigh, North Carolina; Richmond, Virginia; and the nation\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein urged residents to enable emergency alerts on their phones ahead of expected wind gusts topping 70 mph (112 kph). <\/p>\n

Beyond the threat to lives and property, \u201cwhether it\u2019s wind gusts from a squall line, blizzard or snow, or just wind because of the storm, you\u2019re looking at several major airports being impacted,\u201c said AccuWeather senior meteorologist Tyler Roys.<\/p>\n

Big snows in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan<\/p>\n

Blizzard conditions persisted Monday in parts of Wisconsin and Michigan, where the storm brought as much as 2 feet (61 centimeters) of snow by morning.<\/p>\n

Another round of snow and gusty winds on Monday could come close to doubling those totals in upper Michigan.<\/p>\n

Jim Allen, 45, who lives in the Upper Peninsula, said his family stocked up on necessities. \u201cWe\u2019re basically prepared to just kind of hunker down for a few days if we need to,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The thousands of flights canceled nationwide Monday included more than 400 in and out of Chicago O\u2019Hare International and another 300 at Atlanta\u2019s Hartsfield-Jackson International, according to FlightAware, which tracks flight disruptions.<\/p>\n

Kelly Price, who was trying to get home to Colorado after a family vacation in Orlando, Florida, said their Sunday night flight wasn\u2019t canceled until the early Monday morning. <\/p>\n

\u201cBy that time the only place for us to sleep was the airport floor. So we\u2019re all tired and frustrated,\u201d she said, adding that the soonest flight they could book doesn\u2019t leave until Tuesday afternoon. <\/p>\n

Temperatures will soar into triple digits in the West<\/p>\n

A heat dome over the Southwest will push temperatures well into the triple digits in Arizona most of the week, much earlier than the region usually sees. <\/p>\n

Much of California is starting to feel like summer too. The San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento will see temperatures pushing toward 90 F (32 C) by midweek. <\/p>\n

Landslides, rescues, collapsed home on Maui<\/p>\n

Unrelenting rains triggered landslides and flooded homes and farmland in Hawaii over the weekend. <\/p>\n

Some areas of Maui received more than 20 inches (51 centimeters) of rain, Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen said in a social media post. <\/p>\n

Resident and real estate broker Jesse Wald, who recorded video of a coastal road\u2019s collapse, said parts of the road were flooded by mud and sediment.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the 20 years I\u2019ve been here I\u2019ve never seen this much rain,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Storm will bring cold into the East Coast <\/p>\n

Forecasters said the East Coast storms were expected leave sharply colder weather in its wake.<\/p>\n

By Tuesday morning, wind chills below freezing were expected to reach the Gulf Coast and the Florida Panhandle with warnings in effect across the Southeast and in part of Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Texas, forecasters warned. <\/p>\n

To the north, rain was expected to change over to snow behind the cold front with heavy snow possible in the central Appalachians of West Virginia.<\/p>\n

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Brumfield reported from Cockeysville, Maryland, and Seewer from Toledo, Ohio. Associated Press writers Margery Beck in Omaha, Nebraska; Julie Walker in New York; Jeff Martin in Atlanta; Gary Fields in Washington; and Sophia Tareen in Chicago contributed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Chaotic weather coast to coast in the U.S. \u2014 from unusual heat in California to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":659995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[63738,5027,279481,276,10109,10106,12785,84,57,26621,81747,1819,1818,278923,278924,2931,279482,564,8006,3663,773,3669,15337,521,15226,3336,50,519,5217,2830,258369,3883,278926,61,67,132,68,906,313,14831,1398],"class_list":["post-659994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","category-us","tag-ar-state-wire","tag-arkansas","tag-brian-hurley","tag-california","tag-climate","tag-climate-and-environment","tag-dc-wire","tag-district-of-columbia","tag-general-news","tag-hawaii","tag-hi-state-wire","tag-il-state-wire","tag-illinois","tag-jesse-wald","tag-jim-allen","tag-josh-stein","tag-kelly-price","tag-maryland","tag-md-state-wire","tag-minnesota","tag-mississippi","tag-mn-state-wire","tag-ms-state-wire","tag-nc-state-wire","tag-ne-state-wire","tag-nebraska","tag-news","tag-north-carolina","tag-pa-state-wire","tag-pennsylvania","tag-richard-bissen","tag-storms","tag-tyler-roys","tag-u-s-news","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-virginia","tag-weather","tag-wi-state-wire","tag-wisconsin"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}