US EditionBitter Cold Grips Millions as US Digs Out of Sweeping Snowstorm
Almost 200 million Americans face extreme cold alerts with over 800,000 power outages in the Southeast after a winter storm and Arctic air, officials reported.
- On Sunday, tens of millions of Americans were digging out after a winter storm that dumped a foot of snow from New Mexico to New England and left roads slick with snow, ice and freezing rain.
- Following the storm, a blast of Arctic air rushed in from Canada, prolonging sub-freezing temperatures for days and placing almost 200 million Americans under extreme cold alerts.
- Outages and mass cancellations left communities and airports struggling, with PowerOutage.us reporting more than 780,000 southeastern U.S. customers without power and FlightAware tracking over 12,500 U.S. flight cancellations on Sunday.
- State and local officials coordinated emergency assistance as New York Gov. Kathy Hochul mobilized National Guard troops in New York City, Long Island and the Hudson Valley.
- Snow totals ranged from double digits in cities to 31 inches in parts of New Mexico, while southern states faced inch-thick ice that downed trees and power lines and Capitol Hill saw sledding and a snowball fight.
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Severe cold temperatures threaten millions in US
(UPDATE) NEW YORK - Perilously cold temperatures threatened millions of Americans Monday in the wake of a sprawling winter storm that left at least 23 people dead as it knocked out power and paralyzed transportation.
Bitter cold grips millions in US
Millions of Americans were facing dangerously cold temperatures on Monday in the wake of a massive winter storm that whipped snow and ice across the country, knocking out power and paralyzing transportation. A frigid, potentially life-threatening Arctic air mass threatened to delay clean-up as municipalities from New Mexico to Maine tried to dig out following the storm, which dropped a vicious cocktail of heavy snow and wind along with freezing …
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Bitter cold grips millions as US digs out of sweeping snowstorm
Millions of Americans were facing dangerously cold temperatures Monday in the wake of a massive winter storm that whipped snow and ice across the country, knocking out power and paralyzing transportation.
Millions of Americans dig out from huge storm, face days of bitter cold | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Tens of millions of Americans were digging out on a bitterly cold today in the aftermath of a monster winter storm that dumped a foot of snow from New Mexico to New England, paralyzed much of the eastern United States, scuttled thousands of flights and caused widespread power outages.
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