A monster was waking up over the Northern Plains. At first, it was just another March storm on the maps. Then the pressure plunged. Winds screamed to life. Forecast models lit up with blizzard warnings, tornado threats, and a footprint stretching toward 200 million lives. Meteorologists used words they rarely say in public. Travel, power, safety, everything was sudde… Continues… It began quietly over Wyoming, a swirl of low pressure gathering strength as Arctic air knifed south and met a surge of warm, humid air from the Gulf of Mexico. That collision turned the atmosphere into a loaded weapon. As...
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