Wild weather varies across US, with brutal snow storms and record high temperatures

Winter weather led to cancelled flights and closed highways in multiple states, while other states saw summer-like temperatures

A brutal winter storm closed highways from Arizona to Wyoming on Wednesday, trapping drivers in cars, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands and prompting the first blizzard warning in southern California in decades – and the worst won’t be over for several days.

Few places were untouched by wild weather, including some at the opposite extreme: long-standing record high temperatures were broken in the midwest, mid-Atlantic and south-east.