STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Nov. 23 (UPI) -- The central Rockies braced for a second round of heavy snow Tuesday as a powerful storm system moved across the western United States, forecasters said.
A foot of snow with locally higher amounts was forecast for the mountains of northern California while more rain was expected in San Francisco and Los Angeles, accuweather.com reported.
Blizzard conditions were expected to develop from the northern portions of Nevada and Utah to southwestern Montana.
In Seattle, the University of Washington's Seattle and Tacoma campuses suspended operations Tuesday and canceled classes due to the storm, The Seattle Times reported.
A Boeing 747 cargo plane skidded off the runway at Sea-Tac Airport in Seattle Monday but no one was injured, CNN reported. It was not immediately clear if weather was a factor, an FAA spokesman told CNN.
The storm system spread across much of the Northwest Monday with snowfall topping a foot in parts of the northern Sierra, Cascades and northern Rockies.
In the Midwest, a fast-moving tornado caused havoc in northern Illinois overturning a school bus, blowing down power lines and trees, and leveling homes before it headed towards southern Wisconsin.
All five of the children on the Cherry Valley (Ill.) Elementary school bus escaped serious injury along with the bus driver when the vehicle was turned on its side by the twister, the Rockford (Ill.) Register-Star reported.
The tornado struck without warning about 3 p.m. CST Monday.
Commonwealth Edison reported some 40,000 customers lost power in Illinois.
