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A major winter storm has placed over 40 million Americans under weather warnings while authorities in South Africa investigate suspected foul play in a Table Mountain fire that sparked Monday.

A powerful Northeast winter storm paralyzed US air travel with over 8,000 flight disruptions, while heavy rains north of Durban left South African communities submerged amid accusations of municipal neglect and poor urban planning.

As severe thunderstorms bearing heavy downpours and hail threaten South Africa's nine provinces, rescue teams in California continue searching for nine skiers missing after a Lake Tahoe avalanche, highlighting the mounting challenges of extreme weather events across continents.

While severe storms threaten two provinces with hail and strong winds, SanParks appeals for public support to restore Kruger National Park's infrastructure damaged by recent catastrophic flooding.

Tropical Cyclone Gezani has veered away from direct landfall in Mozambique and will bypass Zimbabwe entirely, though the storm compounds a humanitarian crisis that has already displaced nearly 700,000 people across the region.