Cold air from north Canada brings wind-chill warnings over area stretching down to Mexico border
Travellers unload at Minneapolis-Saint Paul international airport in Minneapolis on Wednesday as the cold weather hit.Travellers unload at Minneapolis-Saint Paul international airport in Minneapolis on Wednesday as the cold weather hit.Much of the United States is experiencing very cold conditions as cold air plunges south from northernAn area of low pressure in the Great Lakes region brought snow and bitter winds.
The combination of cold air and strong northerly winds resulted in wind-chill warnings being issued by the National Weather Service, covering an area stretching from the Canadian border to the border with Mexico in southern Texas. Wind-chill temperatures lower than -40C are expected, the temperature at which the celsius and fahrenheit scales intersect.
Over the weekend, travellers and tourists in Iceland found themselves stuck in Keflavik airport as flights were severely delayed or cancelled due to heavy snowfall on Saturday. A few days earlier, a low pressure system developed off the east coast ofand propagated eastwards towards Iceland. The Icelandic Met Office recorded a snow depth of 14cm at 9am on Saturday.
On the other side of the world, the first named tropical cyclones of the 2022-23 Australian season occurred this week. One of these, Tropical Cyclone Darian, began developing in the Indian Ocean last week as a tropical low. This low strengthened into a cyclone on Sunday and was given the name Darian by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. Darian quickly strengthened, becoming a category 5 cyclone on the Australian scale on Wednesday, with maximum sustained wind speeds of 140mph.
This makes Darian the earliest category 5 cyclone to occur in the Australian season since 2009, when Severe Tropical Cyclone Laurence reached category 5 on 16 December. Unlike Laurence, which caused significant damage in northern and western Australia, Darian is far from any land and is slowly weakening in the centre of the south Indian Ocean.
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