Travel chaos as powerful winter storm threatens flight delays and road safety for millions across the US starting TODAY

Daily Mail UK ^ | Thanksgiving Day 2025 | STACY LIBERATORE

[Morgana]

A strong winter storm is set to hit parts of the US Midwest and Great Lakes region this weekend, threatening flight delays and road safety for millions after the holiday.

Winter Storm Watches are now in effect across Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Indiana, Michigan, Nebraska, South Dakota and Minnesota, impacting around 50 million Americans.

Forecasters warned of potentially heavy snowfall, with accumulations of 6–12 inches or more possible in many areas, especially north of Interstate 70 and along and south of Interstate 90.

The heaviest snow is currently expected across central and northern Illinois, eastern Iowa, southern and eastern Wisconsin, and lower Michigan, where totals could exceed 8–10 inches in some locations.

The National Weather Service (NWS) warned travel will likely become very difficult to nearly impossible, particularly on Saturday, as roads, bridges, and overpasses turn slick and hazardous.

Airports in Chicago, Milwaukee and Grand Rapids are already issuing ground-delay and de-icing alerts for Thursday night into Friday because crews are pre-positioning equipment and airlines are proactively canceling or delaying flights ahead of the weekend storm.

The storm’s timing is especially concerning as millions are still returning home from Thanksgiving, likely creating significant disruptions to post-holiday travel.

NWS offices recommended delaying travel if possible, keeping an emergency kit in vehicles and allowing extra time if travel is unavoidable.

[Morgana]

You all be safe if traveling back home for the Holidays.

[dfwgator]

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

The storm’s timing is especially concerning as millions are still returning home from Thanksgiving, likely creating significant disruptions to post-holiday travel.

El Rush-Bo used to rail against this idiotic reporting, phraseology.

The storm has "timing" as if it is an entity itself, "controlling" when and where it "strikes."

Times like these I try to educate young skulls full of mush about The Laurentide Ice Sheet. I like to call it The Great North American Ice Sheet.

In a few thousand years, The Laurentide Ice Sheet will once again begin to spread down from Canada. Last time, it reached all the way down to Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, and REMAINED for 80-100,000 years.

I wonder if in this cold future there will be a Comedy Channel program dedicate to showing the ridiculous AlGore and his minions stating "The Earth has a fever" while the world shivers.