Winter’s grip has yet to release as an erratic patchwork of severe weather moved across much of the US, dumping heavy snow and making roads impassable in the upper midwest while damaging high winds swept across the Plains. A stretch from parts of South Carolina to Maryland appeared most likely to experience the greatest damaging winds on Monday afternoon, the weather service said. On Sunday around the city of Marshfield, Haas was stacking piles of snow as high as his truck. The weather service issued a high-wind warning on Sunday for most of Nebraska, with wind gusts of up to 60mph (97km/h) possible amid falling snow. Roys said high winds would affect a region stretching from the US-Mexico border to the Great Lakes, and from Denver eastward to the Appalachian Mountains.

Source: The Guardian March 16, 2026 19:30 UTC