Severe weather across the United States has left hundreds of thousands of utility customers without power. “More than 116,000 outages have been reported in Michigan, while roughly 41,000 have been reported in Ohio,” USA TODAY reports. “Towards the northeast, Pennsylvania has more than 24,000 outages, and New York has about 19,000,” it added. In total, more than 500,000 customers from Texas to New York were without power Monday morning. Storms knock out power to 500,000 across US Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and South https://t.co/BYR4llVuB6 https://t.co/BYR4llVuB6 — Reuters (@Reuters) March 16, 2026 USA TODAY shared further: A major winter storm has already dumped several feet of snow on the upper Midwest and Great Lakes region. More is still forecast for parts of Wisconsin and Michigan on March 16, according to the National Weather Service. In the Mid-Atlantic, officials in Washington, Virginia, and North Carolina are bracing for thunderstorms that could produce damaging winds and tornadoes. The weather service issued a “moderate risk” of severe weather alert for the region. Potent storms are also expected to bring rain or heavy winds across parts of the Southeast, including in Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee, per the weather service. Tens of thousands of power outages have been reported in states including Georgia, Kentucky, and Mississippi, according to USA TODAY’s outage tracker. Michigan, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania have been hit the hardest by the outages. The severe weather also caused thousands of flight delays. Hundreds of flights at Logan International Airport have been canceled or delayed after Massport issued a weather advisory due to high speed winds and rain, officials said. https://t.co/uBgcO53lbC — The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) March 16, 2026 ABC News has more: More than 3,400 flights within or out of the United States have already been canceled on Monday and more than 14,000 flights have been delayed, according to FlightAware.com, which tracks flights throughout the nation. Between Saturday and Monday morning, more than 5,000 flights were canceled nationwide due to weather, with 3,000 flights scrapped on Sunday alone. A major winter storm sweeping across the country has produced blizzards, ice storms and widespread destruction across parts of the Midwest and Great Lakes states. Overnight, parts of Wisconsin recorded more than 2 feet of snow, including the city of Wausau, which received 23.4 inches of snow on Sunday and was adding to its snow totals on Monday morning. Blizzard conditions are still occurring in parts of Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois and Minnesota, where the city of Minneapolis recorded 8.8 inches of snow overnight and into Monday. Meanwhile, more than 391 reports of damaging winds have been recorded from Texas to Ohio. At least eight states — including Tennessee, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Mississippi and New York — have reported destructive wind gusts of 70 mph.