Snow has cancelled nearly 1,200 flights in Chicago Monday and more than 1,500 nationwide as those from the Midwest to the South to the Northeast brace for a major temperature plunge.
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Add Weather as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Weather news, video, and analysis from ABC News.A quick-moving storm has brought accumulating snow to the Midwest and the Rockies, transforming highways into sheets of ice and sending cars veering off roads.
A SHINING example of why we tell you to be extra cautious while driving over bridges/overpasses during freezing temps. The ground keeps many roadways warm, but cold air gets under bridges! This is Lapeer Rd bridge over I-69 in downtown Flint this morning. @GMA @Ginger_Zee #miwx pic.twitter.com/pvBSysPrJ2
— Brad Sugden (@BradSugdenwx) November 7, 2019
The streets in Aurora are ice and snow covered use extra caution as it is a skating rink out here. #cowx @Denver7Traffic @DenverChannel pic.twitter.com/ECr6Xe5ngp
— Daryl Orr (@WxTrackerDaryl) November 11, 2019
One plane in Chicago even slid off the runway due to icy conditions while landing at O'Hare International Airport Monday morning, American Airlines said. No one was hurt, according to the airline.
"As soon as we landed, we could start feeling something a little off there and we tried to do a little turn and that's when we started going sideways," passenger Shaun Steele told ABC Chicago station WLS.
"There was no visibility at all," added passenger Luis Torres Curet.
BREAKING: @AmericanAir Flight AA4125 from @flyfrompti to @fly2ohare slides off runway in Chicago this morning. Passengers tell me everyone is OK, deplaned and on buses to terminal. Video: Joseph Lian from Greensboro. @ABC11_WTVD @ABC #ABC11 pic.twitter.com/rBwyqfVtiU
— Andrea Blanford (@AndreaABC11) November 11, 2019
This is the snowiest start to winter in Milwaukee and Madison by "virtue of number of days with measurable snowfall," according to the National Weather Service.
Sunrise for Milwaukee at November 11, 2019 at 06:38AM! Current temperature 20. pic.twitter.com/jpgVDhVK6L
— Lindsey Slater (@LindseySlaterTV) November 11, 2019
❄️BYE SNOW❄️
— Hannah Hilyard WISN (@Hannah_WISN) November 11, 2019
We are about to take off for Nashville! Just needed a quick de-ice first✈️ pic.twitter.com/bIVMc5MQQq
As this arctic cold takes aim, 16 states from Oklahoma to Maine are under winter storm warnings or winter weather advisories.