Elsewhere, inclement weather plagued areas of the U.S., with dangerous conditions including heavy snow in upstate New York, a major ice storm in Midwest states and severe weather warnings around Lake Tahoe.

A wide swath of freezing rain has led to multiple crashes across Iowa and Nebraska. FOX Weather’s Brandy Campbell reports live from Cedar Rapids, Iowa where a thick glaze of ice continues to build.

An ice storm has caused chaos on roads in the Midwest in the US, while on the West Coast, officials are checking whether San Francisco suffered its first tornado in almost two decades.Winter weather disrupted both the US Midwest and California on its West Coast at the weekend.