Rain and snow are brought to the Plains from the West Coast by a major winter storm.

 Rain and snow are brought to the Plains from the West Coast by a major winter storm.

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An area extending from California to the northern Plains to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan is expected to experience rain and snow due to a high-impact winter storm.


Winter weather alerts are in effect for over 20 million people on Sunday, including in Bismarck, North Dakota; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Denver; and Minneapolis.

As of Sunday morning, Alta, Utah, had already received over 12 inches of snow, with the Alta Ski Area reporting 22 inches in a single day. Over 7 inches of snow had fallen in Flagstaff, Arizona, and in Bellemont, a town 12 miles north, 10 inches of snow fell.


With blizzard conditions that will make driving dangerous tonight and impact portions of Colorado to Minnesota, heavy snow will continue to build over the central and northern Plains on Sunday afternoon. Two inches of snowfall per hour combined with wind gusts of sixty miles per hour might be dangerous.

"Power outages and tree damage may result from strong winds and heavy, wet snow on trees and power lines," the National Weather Service stated in an update Sunday. “Wind gusts over 50 mph today may result in power outages, blowing dust with reduced visibility, difficult travel and property damage.”

The forecast held true Sunday night as the weather service office for the Twin Cities reported a snowfall rate of 1 to 2 inches an hour. Social media imagery from Waterloo, Iowa, verified by NBC News showed near whiteout conditions before sunset.

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The weather service office for Boulder, Colorado, reported a salad bar of precipitation, including "a band of precipitation, snow, hail, ice pellets, and any other hydrometeors you may be observing." NBC News confirmed social media footage from southwest Denver that seemed to show graupel falling in the late afternoon.

Snow will continue to fall steadily through Monday, and by Tuesday night, it will have cleared out and entered Canada. There will probably be 8 to 16 inches of snowfall in the region between Nebraska and northern Wisconsin, with some places perhaps getting as much as 20 inches.

Over the next two days, the same storm system is also expected to provide severe weather concerns and heavy rain in the southern Plains and Southeast.


The storm was expected to impact Wichita and Dodge City, as well as other cities in Kansas and Oklahoma, on Sunday. Overnight storms have the potential to produce destructive wind gusts, tornadoes, and extremely huge hail.

As a swift-moving storm dusted northern New England with snow over the weekend, the region saw intense rain and high winds.

According to the report, as of Sunday afternoon, West Windsor, Vermont, received 33.1 inches of snow, Landgrove, Vermont, received 32 inches, and East Millinocket, Maine, received 29 inches.

On Saturday, a storm delivered 3.06 inches of rain at a Philadelphia gauge, making it the wettest day on record and breaking the previous daily rainfall record. March at the weather service's official observing site.

Authorities reported Sunday afternoon that rescue efforts were underway in Chester, Pennsylvania, south of Philadelphia, for a 6-year-old child who fell into a flooded creek on Saturday. However, they claimed the U.S. Coast Guard was anticipated to keep scanning the adjacent Delaware's waterways overnight.

According to a utility tracker, over 151,000 people in New York, New Hampshire, and Maine were without power on Sunday night. Weather Service

In the Northeast, the number was over 350,000 earlier in the day.