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Weather: Snow, winter storm in Chicago, Midwest affecting millions
A late-April snowstorm is forecast to dump up to 10 inches of snow across a 1,200-mile swath of the Midwest and Great Lakes states, including Chicago.

Slide 1 of 27: Sterling Strack, left, watches as friends of his father help dig his truck out of snow near Shaver Lake, Calif., on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2019. Strack said he was driving home the previous night but began to slide in his two-wheel drive truck, and decided to leave it parked overnight.

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Nearly 50 million people are expected to hit the roadways this Thanksgiving holiday season, the highest number since 2005 and a record 31.6 million travelers are expected to take to the skies on U.S. airlines, up 3.7% from last year. This year,winter storms are expected to cause traffic and airline delays across the country.Sterling Strack, left, watches as friends of his father help dig his truck out of snow near Shaver Lake, Calif., on Nov. 27. Strack said he was driving home the previous night but began to slide in his two-wheel drive truck, and decided to leave it parked overnight.

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Wintry weather temporarily loosened its grip across much of the U.S. just in time for Thanksgiving, after tangling holiday travelers in wind, ice and snow and before more major storms descend Friday.

There were some exceptions to the respite, particularly involving California’s main north-south Highway 5, which was shut down in Southern California early Thursday as heavy snow softly blanketed the region.

But high winds that had ripped a wooden sign from scaffolding on Chicago’s Willis Tower and nearly felled the Christmas Tree to close Cleveland’s Public Square Wednesday were calm enough by Thursday morning to allow the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York to proceed, albeit with balloons flying at lower levels.

In this photo provided by Caltrans, are cars and trucks in stopped traffic on Interstate 5 near Dunsmuir, Calif., Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2019. Thanksgiving travel has been snarled in some places by two powerful storms. A winter storm blamed for one death and hundreds of canceled flights in the West moved into the Midwest on Wednesday and dropped close to a foot of snow in parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin. (Caltrans via AP)

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In this photo provided by Caltrans, are cars and trucks in stopped traffic on Interstate 5 near Dunsmuir, Calif., Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2019. Thanksgiving travel has been snarled in some places by two powerful storms. A winter storm blamed for one death and hundreds of canceled flights in the West moved into the Midwest on Wednesday and dropped close to a foot of snow in parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin. (Caltrans via AP)

The National Weather Service predicted things could get dicey — if not impassable — for holiday travelers’ trips home. Forecasters warned against travel Friday night through Saturday night in a stretch of country from northeast Wyoming to northwest South Dakota due to expected blizzard conditions.

The next storm system was expected to drop up to 2 feet of additional snow from the Sierra Nevada to the central and northern Rockies as it rolls across a large swatch of the western and central United States.

In California, authorities grappling with the second closure of I-5 in three days suggested alternate routes Thursday as they worked to clear the road. A previous closure on Tuesday near the border with Oregon stranded hundreds of people, and Thursday’s seemed likely to separate some families for the holiday.

Long stretches of two interstate highways in northern Arizona’s high country also were expected to be closed between late Thursday and early Friday because of expected heavy snowfall.

In Ohio, crews had restored power to about 90 percent of those affected by Wednesday power outages caused by high winds. At the peak, 42,000 customers in central Ohio and 39,000 in northeast Ohio were without electricity.

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Associated Press writers Martha Mendoza in Frazier Park, California, and Don Babwin in Chicago contributed to this report.

This photo tweeted by the Santa Barbara County Fire Department shows a Santa Barbara Fire Department truck along E. Camino Cielo as snow falls at the 3,500 foot level on the fire footprint in Santa Barbara, Calif. Thursday, Nov. 28, 2019. Wintry weather temporarily loosened its grip across much of the U.S. just in time for Thanksgiving, after tangling holiday travelers in the wind, ice and snow and before more major storms descend Friday. (Mike Eliason/Santa Barbara County Fire via AP)

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This photo tweeted by the Santa Barbara County Fire Department shows a Santa Barbara Fire Department truck along E. Camino Cielo as snow falls at the 3,500 foot level on the fire footprint in Santa Barbara, Calif. Thursday, Nov. 28, 2019. Wintry weather temporarily loosened its grip across much of the U.S. just in time for Thanksgiving, after tangling holiday travelers in wind, ice and snow and before more major storms descend Friday. (Mike Eliason/Santa Barbara County Fire via AP)

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What is thundersnow? Explaining this rare winter storm occurrence

Mar 7, 2018, 2:18 PM ET
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WATCHNor'easter slams East Coast with snow and strong winds

A powerful nor'easter dumping heavy snow on the Northeast today brought thundersnow -- when thunder and lightning occur during a snowstorm -- to New York City and New Jersey.

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The ingredients for thundersnow are similar to a thunderstorm that forms in the summertime: warm, moist air rising toward a colder air mass above, creating instability.

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Although the lower air mass has to be warmer than the air above, the entire column has to be cold enough for snow to fall and reach the ground.

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A man crosses the street through heavy snow in Hoboken, N.J., March 7, 2018.

This can be tricky during the wintertime, which is why thundersnow doesn’t happen often.

If it all comes together, that enhanced upward motion of air increases snow growth and causes enough electrical charge separation within the cloud for lightning to strike.

Thundersnow often coincides with very heavy snow, usually falling at 1 to 3 inches per hour. The atmospheric instability that creates the thundersnow is also what causes these extreme snowfall rates.

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