America's holiday travel season collapsed under the weight of a rapidly intensifying winter storm as Bomb Cyclone Ezra swept across the country from 26 to 29 December 2025, triggering blizzard warnings, widespread power outages, and severe travel disruptions from the Midwest to the East Coast.
Meteorologists confirmed that Ezra intensified explosively over the northern United States on 26 December, meeting the scientific threshold for a bomb cyclone as surface pressure dropped in under 24 hours.
