Thousands of flights cancelled as officials warn of ‘major and anomalous storm system’ bringing snow and life-threatening wind chill
At the White House, after a briefing on the potential “bomb cyclone”, Joe Biden said: “This is not like a snow day when you were a kid. This is serious stuff.”
“Record-breaking cold and life-threatening wind chills” were forecast “over the Great Plains to overspread the eastern half of the nation by Friday”, with “significant freezing rain possible across parts of western Oregon and Washington” state from Thursday night. “The Pacific north-west is really seeing extraordinarily cold temperatures for us,” Voss told the Associated Press. “I think in my seven and a half years living in the Pacific north-west and specifically here in my local area, I don’t remember a specific instance where I can remember temperatures quite this low … This is absolutely not to be taken lightly.
“That’s the kind of changes that are going to be occurring as this front pushes southward,” Oravec told the AP. “Rapid temperature drops, sometimes 50 or more degrees colder than the previous day. It’s a pretty powerful system.” Amtrak canceled service on more than 20 routes, primarily in the midwest. Service between Chicago and Milwaukee, Chicago and Detroit, and St Louis and Kansas City was suspended through Christmas Day.
Wind-chill and hard-freeze warnings extended through much of Texas, Louisiana and Alabama, with a hard-freeze watch for the Florida panhandle. Freezing weather and wind chills cold enough to induce frostbite on exposed skin in minutes were widely expected.
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