US: Winter storm brings ‘life-threatening’ cold

Instead of imagining dire global warming, many US citizens can step outside for a sharp dose of a different reality. “EVERY state in the US has an active NWS watch, warning, or advisory”. One to remember when summer heatwaves come around and UN-led warmist miserablism fires up again.
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The mercury was plummeting across the US Midwest on Saturday as a biting winter storm left hundreds of thousands without power and threatened to disrupt the first key event in the 2024 presidential election campaign, says DW.com.

Over a quarter of a million people in Michigan and Wisconsin were left without power as freezing temperatures spread across the region, according to the PowerOutage.US website.

Winds and heavy snow also grounded planes at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport with some 7,600 flights delayed across the country.

States of emergency were declared from New York to Louisiana with the National Weather Service in St Louis warning of a “life-threatening” cold.

Extreme winter weather
“EVERY state in the US has an active NWS watch, warning, or advisory,” the National Weather Service said on Friday.

These ranged from the blizzards announced for Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan, to avalanche warnings in Utah, Wyoming and Idaho, and from coastal flooding warnings in both the east and west, to winter storm warnings or winter weather advisories covering much of the rest of the country.

Authorities already announced the first cold-related death of the season after a man reportedly died following exposure in suburban Chicago.

The city is expecting several inches of snow, wind gusts of up to 50 miles per hour (80 kilometers per hour) and wind chills as low as minus 15 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 26 Celsius). Such low temperatures can cause frostbite after just 15 minutes of exposure.

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