Burlington Public Works deployed all 11 snow plows Tuesday as the season’s first major winter storm put the town’s snow removal operations to the test.

Snowfall records in Des Moines date back to 1884. That would be Jan. 8-9, 2024, when 11.2 inches accumulated at Des Moines International Airport. That storm followed another earlier in the week and was part of a rough couple of weeks of winter weather in Iowa.

Storms sweeping the country today are not the only concern, as a post-Thanksgiving storm will likely bring the biggest snowfall totals to portions of the Rockies and Midwest, beginning Friday and lasting through Monday.

A winter storm is expected to bring the Chicago area its heaviest snowfall in more than two years, with a Winter Storm Warning in effect from 3 a.m. Saturday through Sunday morning.

More than 3,500 households and businesses across Connecticut were without power Tuesday afternoon as a winter storm brought snow and rain to much of the state, according to power companies. Eversource, the state's largest power utility, reported 2,237 outages as of 5 p.m., including 1,200 in Glastonbury, 363 in Madison and 237 in Killingsworth.

A powerful winter storm is snarling Thanksgiving travel across parts of the Upper Midwest Wednesday, after pummeling the Northern Plains with snow and powerful wind gusts that caused numerous driving injuries and hundreds of crashes.

Before the "Blizzard of '93," there was the "Storm of the Century." Western Pennsylvania was buried by more than 2 feet of snow in late November 1950.

FOX Weather Storm Specialist Mike Seidel is in Des Moines, Iowa after the state received a record-breaking storm total of 10.9 inches of snow, making it its biggest snowfall since 1968 and third largest snowfall on record in November for them.