The Northern Plains Flood Hazard Zone During an Atmospheric River Event on May 21-29, 2013 at the Wilkinson Microwave Radio Telescope

An atmospheric river event this weekend will bring a lot of rain to the West and bring hazardous weather to millions across the country.

The Storm Prediction Center predicted that snow and strong winds will spread across the Northern Plains into the Upper Midwest on Wednesday and Thursday.

Most of California will receive about 1 to 3 inches of rain by the weekend, and some areas could receive up to 5 inches of rain. The main concern will be coastal erosion and flooding.

Winds will also be a concern for California, with gusts of up to 40 mph in the valleys, 50 mph for coastal areas, and potentially even higher gusts forecast for exposed coastal headlands, mountaintops, and ridges.

The eastern New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine areas can expect between 18 and 24 inches of snow according to the weather service. Already, parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York have seen several inches of snow, with some areas catching up to six inches.

“This system will cause a lot of problems for travel going into the busy holiday travel time, along with the potential for power failures due to high winds and heavy snows in some parts of the country,” the NWS said Friday.

Matthew Elliott, a meteorologist at the Storm Prediction Center told CNN that during the fall and winter tornadoes are more likely in the Lower Mississippi Valley and Southeast where there is often a secondary peak.

There is a tornado watch for parts of Texas and Oklahoma. A few tornadoes are possible and there is a chance of hail and wind gusts up to 75 mph.

As the event approaches and smaller-scale trends are more apparent, the details regarding the areas most at risk from tornadoes will become clearer.

Snowfall on Twin Bridges, Tahoe-Donner, and Palsades Tahoe Ski Base During the Fourth Day of Winter Storms

In the course of 48 hours, 48 inches of snow fell in Twin Bridges, while 46 inches fell in Tahoe-Donner, and 44 inches at Palsades Tahoe Ski Base.

An additional foot of snow can be expected in the highest altitudes before 4 a.m., as winter storm warnings have been put in place.

The storm already made for icy and dangerous conditions on key roadways, with authorities on Saturday closing down a long stretch of Interstate 80, from Colfax in Northern California to Stateline, Nevada, due to “blowing snow & near-zero visibility,” Caltrans said on Twitter.

A forecaster at the National Weather Service office in Reno said that the snow is more than double the normal amount.

“It looks a lot like Christmas out here,” Deutschendorf said. “It didn’t come with a lot of wind, and it stuck to everything. It is like a picture postcard.

While he noted the snow totals so far are impressive, Deutschendorf said he is “cautiously optimistic” about this precipitation putting a big dent in the state’s drought.

“We’re Buried,” the Palisades Tahoe Ski Resort wrote on its website Sunday, sharing photos of thick snow covering the ski resort in Olympic Valley, California.

This storm is definitely going to be hard to forget. We’ve now received 7.5 feet of snow since December 1st. It was the 6th biggest total in 24 hours that we have on record, and we received more than 35 inches of snow in a single day.

The Wayne tornado was ENERGY’s highest rated tornado in the state of South Dakota, prompting authorities to evacuate schools and shut down universities

The National Weather Service office in Rapid City, South Dakota, said travel through the area will be nearly impossible Tuesday and Wednesday, and possibly into Thursday.

Many of the country’s 330 million people were under a winter weather alert on Thursday because of a wide range of winter problems, according to the National Weather Service.

In Anchorage, Alaska, an “unprecedented amount of snowfall” has led to schools being closed for four days and shut down the University of Alaska Anchorage and Alaska Pacific University on Monday.

These areas need the moisture and have seen great relief to drought conditions in the past week. Tennessee, for example, went from 96% of the state under drought to being at 46% this week.

There were no deaths or injuries due to the tornado, McClain County Sheriff’s Capt. Bryan Murrell said. But as authorities began assessing the damage to the town of Wayne on Tuesday morning, it was clear the damage was widespread.

According to the National Weather Service, the tornado was rated as an EF-2 and had wind speeds of 115-135 mph. The weather service believes it was on the ground for about two to four minutes.

There were at least two tornadoes spotted along the front edge of the storm as it headed toward the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area, though the extent of damage was not immediately known.

The South has been hit hard by a tornado in the last 17 years, and a child was killed in Pecan Farms, Fla

“There’s essentially no one traveling right now,” said Justin McCallum, a manager at the Flying J truck stop at Ogallala, Nebraska. He said he got to work before the roads were closed, but likely won’t be able to get back home Tuesday. “I can see to the first poles outside the doors, but I can’t see the rest of the lot right outside. I’ll probably just get a motel room here tonight.”

The South Dakota Department of Public Safety tweeted Monday: “This is a ‘we are not kidding’ kind of storm.” People were encouraged to stay home and stock up on necessities.

“It will be a busy week while this system moves across the country,” said Marc Chenard, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s headquarters in Maryland.

In northern Utah, a tour bus crashed Monday morning as snow and frigid temperatures blanketed the region. The Highway Patrol said in a statement that the bus flipped onto it’s side in Tremonton after the driver lost control. The Highway Patrol said 23 passengers were injured, including some seriously.

A massive cross-country storm is producing damaging tornadoes in the South, where a child has died, and punishing blizzard conditions in Colorado and the Plains that have resulted in shuttered interstates and snarled travel.

A young boy was found dead in a wooded area of Pecan Farms where his home was destroyed on Tuesday after a tornado hit Four Forts, Louisiana, according to a statement from the Caddo Sheriff Steve Prator.

Just outside Dallas, storms left at least five people injured, Grapevine police said. The businesses that were damaged were a mall and a Sam’s Club.

“It’s the worst damage I’ve seen in 17 years,” Nolan told CNN, describing seeing mobile homes lifted from their axles and frames and in some cases carried a quarter of a mile away.

The Emergency Services of Wise County, Fla., reported by First Responders in the Early Morning Hours of Wednesday. Weather forecast for mid-Aug. to Midwestern states

First responders were still searching for people in the early morning hours Wednesday, Nolan said, adding several people were injured while traveling in cars.

Most of the country shared in the misery whether from snow, ice or subzero temperatures: Roughly two-thirds of the U.S. population — more than 200 million people — were under winter warnings or advisories at one point on Friday. Even New Orleans, famous for its balmy climate, opened three overnight warming centers.

More than 3 million people across parts of Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, and Arkansas were under tornado watches early Wednesday. There are threats of tornadoes, hail, and gusts up to 75 mph.

Photos sent by the city showed downed power lines on rain-soaked streets, as well as toppled trees, damaged buildings and a semitrailer that appeared to have been tossed around a parking lot.

The homes and businesses in Wise County were damaged Tuesday morning, county officials said. One person was hurt when wind overturned their vehicle, and the other – also in a vehicle – was hurt by flying debris, officials said.

In Farmerville, Louisiana, Tiyia Stringfellow told CNN she was inside her apartment when a tornado hit. She was with her boyfriend and two young children and all of them survived without injuries, she said.

The “one-in-five-year storm” worked its way through parts of Nebraska Tuesday and is expected to linger in the area through the end of the week, NWS metrologist Bill Taylor said.

The winter weather will continue across the plains and then head into the Upper Midwest through Wednesday, making travel dangerous.

Long-Term Weather in Grapevine Parks and Recreation: Planned Weather in the Northeastern United States and Forecasts for New England and Boston

For those traveling by air, the prospects weren’t much better: More than 2,200 flights had been canceled by late afternoon Thursday, and 6,000 others had been delayed, according to flight tracking website FlightAware.

A possible tornado blew the roof off the city’s service center — a municipal facility — and left pieces of the roof hanging from powerlines, said Trent Kelley, deputy director of Grapevine Parks and Recreation.

In Colorado, roads were closed in the northeast part of the state. The severe weather in the ranching region could also threaten livestock. Jim Santomaso is a northeast representative for the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association.

A long duration event is what the National Weather Service describes it as. Minnesota was expecting a lull Wednesday, followed by a second round of snow.

Heavy rain is expected for New York and Boston after the storm system moves away from the region Sunday.

Snowfall and Ice Breakdowns in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic Regions as Enough to Prevent a Life-threatening Disaster

“This is a life-threatening dangerous event,” Hochul said Friday afternoon at a news conference in Albany. “Protect yourselves, protect your families. Don’t travel until the roads are open, you know it’s safe.

Hochul urged everyone in the impacted areas to avoid unnecessary travel. “Work from home if possible, stay off the roads, and make sure you and your loved ones remain vigilant.”

With snow covering roads and airports, United, American,Delta, Southwest and Jet Blue have issued travel waivers for dozens of airports from the South to the Northeast to free up space in their airplanes.

Icy, wind-whipped air left residents shivering across much of the country, especially those who are accustomed to mild winters. The authorities said that 12 people died in crashes likely related to the storm in Kentucky, Kansas, Ohio and Oklahoma.

In the Mid-Atlantic region, the storm dropped a quarter inch of ice on the mountains of West Virginia and Maryland, while a tenth of an inch fell in parts of Virginia.

Powerful winds whirled by blizzard conditions knocked down power lines in the Upper Midwest as temperatures in some areas plummeted to near or below freezing, leaving thousands without proper heating.

Meanwhile in Louisiana, Yoshiko A. Smith, 30, and her 8-year-old son, Nikolus Little, were killed Tuesday when a tornado struck Caddo Parish and destroyed their home, local officials said.

The Northern Storm will be a Bomb Cyclone. Forecast for a Very Cold Air-Front over the North-Central United States

Editor’s Note: A version of this article originally appeared in the weekly weather newsletter, the CNN Weather Brief, which is released every Monday. You can sign up here to receive them every week and during significant storms.

Places that will not be exposed to the cold will escape the snow. Areas from eastern Montana through the Dakotas will experience the coldest air beginning Thursday morning. Temperatures will be running 40 degrees below normal for these places. The wind chill will be as low as 50 degrees below zero with the combination of cold temperatures and windy conditions.

There will be a wind chill of minus 25 and the temperature is expected to be around 10 degrees below zero by sunrise. The high temperature tomorrow won’t get you above zero degrees.

The most widespread weather hazard over the next few days will be the dangerous cold . The wind chill alert is in effect for more than 25 states stretching from the Texas Gulf Coast to the US-Canadian border. The wind chill Wednesday night could drop to minus 70 degrees in parts of Wyoming, a low reading rarely seen in the US.

Whiteout conditions are possible if high winds pick up snow already on the ground and cause low visibility.

There could be power disruptions in the city on Friday with winds expected to be as high as 50 mph. This will only make the storm worse because the wind chills will be much lower than 20 degrees below zero.

In the northern hemisphere, there has snow and ice covering the entire area. Greg Carbin, branch chief at the prediction center said, “You have basically got a source freezer sitting up there in the Arctic polar regions.” “It’s sort of the Polar Express and the cold air can hold on to those characteristics because there’s a lot of snow cover on the ground, even across the north-central United States.”

The weather service in Chicago warned that the rapid development of dangerous conditions could have a significant impact on the evening peak travel window.

As it treks east across the country, the storm is expected to become a “bomb cyclone,” a rapidly strengthening storm which drops 24 millibars of pressure within 24 hours. The storm’s pressure was forecast to match that of a Category 2 hurricane as it moved into the Great Lakes on Friday morning.

“I-95 gets a slug of pretty deep rain and that can be a problem in those areas that are now seeing snow,” Carbin said. “You can see some runoff melting, maybe even some flooding.”

This major storm is upping the chances of a white Christmas for millions across the country. It was already obvious that some areas had snow on the ground and cold temperatures.

“The probability is normally about 10% that the DC area will have at least one inch of snow on Christmas Day,” Carbin explained. “With the pattern coming together the way it is, I’d be willing to bump that up to a 30% chance and it could increase pretty substantially here in the next couple of days, depending on what scenario comes out.”

Snow and Ice in the Cascades Mountains, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming In Light of the NWS Mid-Atlantic Storm

The latest bulletin from the National Weather Service (NWS) names the cause as a “strong arctic high pressure system,” which swept down from Canada on Tuesday and appears poised to march towards the Southeast on Wednesday and Thursday, leaving a wake of life-threatening weather systems across 17 states.

The Cascades mountains in Washington state are likely to see the heaviest snowfall on Tuesday, but nearby lowlands in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming could see a foot of snow, according to the NWS. The region could see another blast of snow and ice on Thursday.

More than 1,100 flights have been canceled across the US, according to the flight tracking site FlightAware, snarling air travel amid the busy holiday season.

An outage that left 180,000 without power across New England over the weekend was resolved by Monday, but the Associated Press reported that attempts to bring extra utility workers into the state ahead of this week’s storm were stymied by slick roads.

If you are going outside, wear layers, cover your skin and change into dry clothing as soon as possible. Staying indoors is the best preventative method according to experts.

Denver is warning about the “life-threatening” cold. The city went from a temperature of 42 degrees with a wind chill of 32 at 3:53 p.m. Wednesday to a temperature of -9 and a wind chill of -30 at 8:30 p.m. – a 60 degree drop in temperature with respect to wind chill.

There’s a chance of snow falling in Jackson, Mississippi, Memphis and Nashville in Tennessee on Thursday. Little to no snow will fall in most of the south, but Nashville could see an inch of snow.

Forecasts of Snowfall in the Great Lakes Region with the Metro Atlanta, Kentucky, and Oklahoma Governors Under Low Visibility Conditions Wednesday Night

The weather service describes the strength of the storm as aonce-in-a-generation event and it will hit the Great Lakes with the pressure equivalent of a Category 3 Hurricane.

This may not be the case in which the whole story is told. Poor visibility and slick spots on the roads can be caused by a combination of small snow amounts and strong wind gusts. The weather service explained that the sudden arrival of these conditions can increase the danger.

In Atlanta, where residents are used to the occasional cold snap, Gov. Brian Kemp declared a state of emergency this week, prohibiting price gouging of heating fuels and warning of black ice on the roads.

The governor said that the declaration would make sure that essential supplies, like propane, could be delivered for both commercial and residential needs.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear also declared a state of emergency, with wind gusts expected to reach 40 to 50 mph on Friday and minus 10 to minus 26 degrees wind chills expected on Saturday. Beshear asked residents to stay off roads and to have a backup heat source.

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear also declared states of emergency Wednesday, and Maryland activated emergency response operations ahead of the winter storm.

Motorists were told to stay off the roads in Wyoming after the Highway Patrol responded to hundreds of calls for service on Wednesday because of a lack of visibility.

More than 100 vehicles were stranded on snowcovered roads in South Dakota under low visibility conditions Wednesday night.

The Kansas City homeless responded to a 2021 winter storm and forecasted temperatures had melted by the onset of cold air showers

The scale of the storm itself is larger than a nor’easter or a Midwest storms, says an associate professor at the University of Albany. She wants scientists to come in and look at the dynamics of this storm. The conditions surrounding this storm are a great example of how to intensify storms.

President Biden was speaking to reporters Thursday morning in front of a national map of wind chill forecasts. This is not the same as a snow day when you were a kid. This is serious stuff.”

The cold front has moved so swiftly that temperatures across the Rocky Mountains plunged at record paces. In just nine minutes on Wednesday, the temperature dropped more than 30 degrees in Wyoming.

In Texas, where a 2021 winter storm overwhelmed the state’s power grid and ultimately killed more than 200 people, officials said they expected the grid would hold up as forecasts called for cold weather but little precipitation.

The grid is ready and reliable according to the chairman of the state’s Public Utility Commission. “We expect to have sufficient generation to meet demand throughout this entire winter weather event.”

City officials stressed that crews were working around the clock in order to keep flights moving at the two airports that serve as the hub for major airlines.

More than 350 pieces of snow removal equipment, more than 400,000 gallons of liquid deicer, and more than 5,000 tons of salt are just a few of the items that these hard-working individuals will have at their disposal.

The winter weather in Kansas City only brought snow to the area in about an inch or two. It was expected that the temperatures would remain below freezing for a few days, putting strain on the homeless services.

Many area shelters added beds this week but still reported being at or near capacity. Instead, some people sought shelter on the city’s streetcar, which was operating Thursday after crews had worked from 4 a.m. to clear the route and platforms.

The library is closed. So it’s only this or the bus, or you go into a parking garage, but you’ll probably get kicked out,” said Pete, who said he did not have a permanent place to live and declined to give his last name to KCUR. “There’s not much you can do.”

Denver’s Coliseum closed late Thursday, and it will be closed through noon ET, according to Wayne Carter, a snowmobile rental business in West Yellowstone

Lisa Carter is the proprietor of a snowmobile rentals business in West Yellowstone. “We deal with cold like this all the time. We’re not doing anything extra because we’re used to it. We don’t go outside.

Hank Willemsma, a rancher near Dillon, where Thursday’s high temperature was expected to reach minus 13 degrees, said he’d be working through the cold to keep hay out for his cattle.

Reporting was contributed by Eric Adelson from Orlando, Robert Chiarito from Chicago, Ann Hinga Klein from Des Moines, Jenna Russell from Marblehead, Mass., and Ellen Yan and Sarah Maslin Nir from New York.

“Our troopers, our highway maintainers, our snowplow drivers have been up all night long,” Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon told NPR Thursday. “They’ve just been doing a fantastic job, so we’ve got traffic moving again and we feel good about our circumstances.”

Nearly 5,300 Friday flights have already been canceled as of 7:30 p.m. ET, after nearly 2,700 cancellations on Thursday, according to flight tracking site FlightAware.

Anyone with a cold who wants a warm place to stay can go to Denver. One of them, the Denver Coliseum, reached far past capacity Wednesday night, accommodating 359 people in a space meant for 225, the city of Denver said. All three centers will remain open through noon on Saturday.

The issue of homelessness amid freezing temperatures sparked online conversations about how to get more people off the streets in these dangerous conditions.

“As a public defender, one of the clearest indicators of societal failure was when I’d meet new clients who purposefully got arrested so they’d find some warmth on Rikers Island instead of freezing to death on the street,” Columbia University lecturer and longtime public defender Scott Hechinger wrote on Twitter Wednesday.

Power Outages for Two Hours into a Blizzard and a Storm: New York, Kansas City, and Buffalo, New York

Hundreds of miles of road closings and flight cancelations were increasing rapidly, and all modes of travel were being disrupted. Part of the Long Beach branch of the Long Island Rail Road was disrupted in New York by flooding.

“Christmas is canceled,” said Mick Saunders, a Buffalo, New York, resident who was two hours into blizzard conditions that are expected to last through Sunday morning. “All family and friends agreed it’s safer this way.”

In Kentucky, one person in Louisville died due to the storm while two others died in vehicle crashes. The man’s body was found outside with no obvious signs of trauma and an autopsy would determine the cause of death, police said.

In Kansas City, one person died after losing control of their Dodge Caravan on icy roads Thursday afternoon, according to the Kansas City Police Department. “The Dodge went down the embankment, over the cement retaining wall and landed upside down, submerged in Brush Creek,” police said in a statement.

“I called it a kitchen sink storm because it is throwing everything at us but the kitchen sink,” Hochul said at a press conference Friday afternoon. Mother Nature walloped us with ice, flooding, snow, freezing temperatures and much more this weekend.

For Brian Trzeciak, the storm was “living up to the warnings” at his home in Hamburg, New York. Buffalo’s airport, just to the north, reported zero visibility shortly after noon on Friday.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/23/weather/christmas-arctic-winter-storm-poweroutages-friday/index.html

An Ice Break in the Early Appalachians: Friends and Family at LaGuardia Airport; Snow and Winds as Rare as Possible, and Cold As Possible

He said his mother is 30 minutes away and his sister and her family are in the other direction. “We always get together for Christmas Eve and Christmas, but we’re all hunkering down in our houses until it all stops on Monday.”

Friday will bring record-low temperatures from the Lower Mississippi Valley to the Tennessee and Ohio Valleys, as well as from the East to the Central Appalachians.

The runways at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport were closed due to the ice and nearly half of the flights were canceled. Sound Transit’s express services were suspended Friday due to the icy conditions.

There is a winter storm warning for northeastern Oregon, including Portland, from 4 to 10 pm. Total snow and sleet accumulations of up to one inch and ice accumulations of .2 to .4 inches is likely as well as winds gusting to 55 mph. Wind chills as low as zero are possible, and frostbite is possible on exposed skin in as little as 30 minutes.

If you got a walk in freezer and sat down for a long period of time, that was what it would feel like, said Randy Hayden, 70, who runs a 20,000-acre cattle ranch.

Just as painful was the cancellation of thousands of flights, leaving many weary travelers stuck in airport terminals realizing that they were not going to be home for the holidays as planned.

Sharisse Wooding, a school principal in Memphis, said that her flight back home from New York City had been canceled and she was going to rebooked for Monday.

It was all “a little heartbreaking,” she said, lingering at La Guardia Airport as she tried to regroup. “This is not how I’m supposed to spend my Christmas break.”

The First Four Days of Winter: When Facial Hair and Livery Freezed Off the Cumberland River As a Tracer of Snow and Ice

Nashville was left relatively quiet without the usual hordes of tourists for the holidays because of a layer of ice and snow.

Steam rose into freezing air off the Cumberland River as Kyle Elliott, 29, trudged above it on a pedestrian bridge, a guitar strapped on his back. He was unable to feel his feet 15 minutes into the walk.

“I’ve never experienced weather this cold before,” said Mr. Elliott, a native of Tennessee. “I’ve never felt my facial hair freeze before. I have now.”

As of Friday afternoon, roughly 55 thousand customers across the city of Nashville had lost power, and state officials issued a plea to businesses and residents to reduce usage.

Angus cattle hurried up a pasture trail on Steve and Tara Agan’s farm about an hour south of Des Moines on Friday, eager to feast on silage and alfalfa.

Ms. Agan said that keeping her fingers warm was a challenge and that she had to bottle-feed some of the calves. “But you don’t have a choice. You have to come out of the house. The cows need the same amount of food in the winter as they do in the summer.

Inuffalo Families Huddle in Dark-Cold Homes during the First Winter Storm of 2013: Caitlin Linney, an electronic music artist, woke up with no electricity

A mail carrier in Chicago said that he was surprised that letter carriers were not allowed to finish their routes on foot.

“I have five or six layers on, so my body is OK, but my fingertips keep freezing through my gloves, my glasses keep fogging up and my scanner isn’t working because of the cold,” he said.

New Englanders reacted to the storm with a mix of resilience and acceptance despite the loss of power and roads. At the Landing, a brown-shingled restaurant at the edge of Marblehead Harbor, north of Boston, Dina Sweeney, the manager, stood outside watching the gray water heave and crash through the metal grates and railings at the harbor’s edge, scattering seaweed across the parking lot.

Inside the building, she said, flooding had caused significant damage, buckling the floor, despite the protective hatches built into the structure that allow the ocean water to pass in and out.

Caitlin Linney, an electronic music artist, woke up on Friday at her parents’ rural home in Efland, about 40 minutes northwest of Raleigh, hoping to start her day with a Peloton yoga course, before realizing that they had no electricity.

Ms. Linney’s parents live on a 10-acre property and get their water from a well. But no power meant no water to pump it. So on Friday afternoon, Ms. Linney, who had traveled from her home in Southern California for the holidays, was in nearby Durham, picking up Vietnamese food for lunch — as well as a good deal of bottled drinking water.

The power came back on at her parents’ house by midafternoon, but Ms. Linney was concerned it might go out again, particularly as temperatures were expected to plunge to 9 degrees on Friday night.

“We’re going to keep the wood stove on,” Ms. Linney said. If the power went out again, she said, they may have to ask to bunk down at a neighbor’s house.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/12/23/us/winter-storm-snow-weather/in-buffalo-families-huddle-in-dark-cold-homes

The City of Ponce City Market: A Warming Center for a Hurricane-Induced Community of People and Their Families in Central Florida

At Ponce City Market, a trendy indoor-outdoor mall along the Atlanta BeltLine, the city’s recreation trail, most of the action was inside, as shoppers ran errands two days before Christmas.

The employee of the Marine Layer outpost was waiting on customers in a poofy winter coat and a white wool hat. The wind and cold came in whenever the door was opened. Ms. Velasco, who moved to Atlanta from Houston a few months ago, was not pleased.

Emergency shelters were created to serve hot food and distribute supplies for people who needed it most, as they were lacking the basics.

There is a chance the weather in Central Florida will plunge to the 30s on the weekend, a worrisome drop for Keishaun Johnson who has three children, a dog, and no stable housing situation.

She and her family went to a homeless shelter this week in downtown Orlando, a facility that is doubling as a warming center, to gather supplies for the cold snap.

She said that they had jackets, blankets, all the hygiene stuff, clothes, and socks. “Now I’m 100 percent better with this weekend that’s coming up, because it was really scary.”

Travelers reported that they were pleasantly surprised at the lack of chaos, as the lines appeared to be shorter than the day before.

Joe Netzel was waiting for his wife and daughter to arrive in Phoenix with him when he didn’t think they would be able to get in the door. Our flight is on time.

The Ohio Highway Accidents and Flooding as a Warning to Power Outage in the Mid-Atlantic, South Carolina, Region Defeated by High Winds

At least six people have been killed in vehicle crashes, and at least four have died in a massive pileup on the Ohio Turnpike.

In Tennessee and Kentucky, gusts of wind knocked out electricity to thousands of homes, as the front hit. Emergency responders asked people in the region to stay home if possible.

Getting the power back on in weather like this is a significant challenge, according to Scott Aaronson, Vice President of Security and Preparedness.

Access can be very challenging with downed power lines and trees. … The wind must be at least 35 miles an hour to allow crews to go up in bucket trucks. The combination of the factors will limit the ability of crews to get there and restore power.

In New Jersey, heavy rains and high winds downed power lines and sent floodwaters surging as high as 9 feet along the coast. The Hudson River flooded the interior locations.

Source: https://www.npr.org/2022/12/24/1145419116/winter-storm-travel-power-outage-dangerous-conditions

The Delay Times of Connecting Flights for General Relativity and its Implications for Ticket-Lossing Newcomers

“So that, unfortunately, really affects anyone who’s got a connecting flight, and we’re going to see a lot of people missing connecting flights with these long delay times,” Bangs said.