DENVER—A storm dumping heavy snow buried highways in Colorado and Wyoming on Nov. 26, prompted school closures in Nebraska, and forced more than 1,000 travelers to sleep overnight in Denver’s airport after hundreds of flights were canceled as the busy Thanksgiving week travel period went into high gear.
That storm was heading toward South Dakota, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin—and another storm in the Pacific Ocean was moving toward California, Oregon, and Nevada. Northern California and southern Oregon residents were bracing for the late Tuesday afternoon arrival of a “bomb cyclone” weather phenomenon that could create waves of up to 35 feet, wind gusts of up to 75 mph, and heavy snow in mountainous areas.
