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Historic Winter Storm Forces Mass Closures Across Midwest
Airlines canceled over 1,500 flights across the Midwest and Great Lakes due to up to a foot of snow, stranding tens of thousands of travelers, officials said.
- On November 28, 2025, a winter storm disrupted Thanksgiving travel across the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes, causing more than 1,000 flight cancellations or delays at Chicago O'Hare International Airport and Chicago Midway International Airport.
- Forecasters warned of widespread heavy snowfall and hazardous travel late Friday into Saturday, forecasting 6 to 10 inches in many areas and a foot in some lake-effect zones under a winter storm warning.
- The FAA ordered a Saturday ground stop due to snow and ice, while airlines began installing Airbus A320 software upgrades required by 12:01 a.m. Sunday.
- Tens of thousands of travelers were stranded as cancellations cascaded across major airports, with about an hour of morning delays reported while the Transportation Security Administration planned to screen more than 3 million on Sunday.
- Another system was forecast Monday to spread to the East Coast by Tuesday, risking heavy snow for the northern mid-Atlantic and New England and freezing rain in the Appalachians.
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