The first winter storm of 2025 was deadly and disruptive, killing at least four people, shutting down roadways in the Great Plains, leaving thousands without power and producing record snow in the Great Plains before aiming its destruction at the dense cities of the East Coast.

A massive winter storm is moving through states in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic, with many cities receiving their largest snowfall in a decade. Meanwhile, the freezing rain and ice have left hundreds of thousands of people without power.