Blizzard conditions made holiday travel treacherous in Missouri, Illinois and Kansas Sunday evening and continued to bring winter weather to Wisconsin and Michigan Monday.
A total of 1,101 flights were canceled Sunday and more than 3,400 were delayed because of winter weather, FlightAware reported. The storm coincided with the weekend with the highest travel volume in 14 years, AAA reported. Up to five inches of snow has already fallen in parts of Michigan.
Chicago got several inches of snow overnight except near Lake Michigan where the warmer water prevented snow from sticking. However, there is a flooding risk near the shore and flood warnings have been issued for Cook County, Illinois and Lake and Porter counties in Indiana, the National Weather Service Chicago reported.
Some areas of Illinois were impassable overnight so stranded motorists had to be rescued by snowmobile.
Interstate-70 in Kansas and Interstate-80 in Nebraska were closed from whiteout conditions.
Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer declared a state of emergency, urging travelers to delay their plans.
"This is the stronger winter weather system the Kansas City area has seen in quite some time, National Weather Service Meteorologist Chris Gitro told the Kansas City Star.