A winter storm brings snow, ice, and strong winds to the northern United States
When a winter storm rolls across the United States, thousands of flights are either canceled or delayed, and schools and businesses close their doors.
Aljazeera: US winter storms
A significant winter storm has brought heavy snowfall and howling winds to parts of the northern United States, where authorities have urged citizens to remain indoors and warned that it will be practically difficult to travel by road due to the storm.
When the storm moved across the western and northern parts of the United States on Wednesday, it pounded the Upper Midwest and placed approximately 50 million people under winter weather advisories. As the storm moved eastward, it began to affect the states in the eastern part of the country.
Travel is not advised in the Upper Midwest due to blizzard conditions:
“Moderate, Significant, and Severe winter weather impacts are predicted from the West Coast to New England,” the National Weather Service (NWS) warned through Twitter on Tuesday. “Travel is not advised in the Upper Midwest due to blizzard conditions,” the NWS had added.,
The impact was widespread across the western state of Wyoming, where practically every route was affected.
In a statement made on Facebook, the Wyoming Department of Transportation warned that there is a good chance that interstates and secondary highways across the state may be closed for multiple days.
On Wednesday, schools in a number of states, including North and South Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, were shut down in preparation for the storm. Also, snow, rain, and wind forced the closure of a significant portion of the interstate highway in the Southwest.
Sometimes it is physically impossible to keep up with Mother Nature:
According to statements made by Sergeant Wade Kadrmas of the North Dakota Highway Patrol to the Associated Press, “Sometimes it is physically impossible to keep up with Mother Nature”.
He advised individuals who go out to make sure they were suitably dressed. “They don’t have a winter jacket,” is a common complaint heard from stranded motorists. They might be walking around in shorts and flip-flops, certain that they will make it from point A to point B without anything going wrong, he said.
In places such as Chicago, Denver, and Minneapolis, more than two thousand flights were either canceled or delayed. Frank Pereira, a forecaster with the meteorological service’s Weather Prediction Center, told Reuters that slippery roads would make travel “near-impossible” in the Upper Midwest.
More than 100,000 California households and businesses lost power:
According to data compiled by Poweroutage.us, more than 100,000 California households and businesses lost power as a direct result of the state being buffeted by high winds and heavy precipitation.
On Twitter, the National Weather Service in the Bay Area stated, “Folks, we are getting a tonne of high wind reports: felled trees, roof damage, debris moving across roads, blowing sand that reduces visibility, and power outages.” It’s possible that power outages will endure more than a day if the damage is widespread. Prepare yourself with the necessary supplies!”
According to KTVU, a toddler of one year old suffered life-threatening injuries after a redwood tree fell into a home in the town of Boulder Creek, which is located in the Santa Cruz Mountains south of San Francisco. The sufferer had to be freed from the tree by cutting it down, according to Chief Mark Bingham of the local fire protection department.
The warning has been issued:
According to the National Weather Service, a blizzard warning has been issued for the mountainous regions of Los Angeles County, Ventura County, and Santa Barbara County, and it is in effect from early Thursday morning through Saturday afternoon.
In a message that he made on Twitter, a climate scientist from UCLA named Daniel Swain said that “almost the entire population of California will be able to see snow from some vantage point later this week” if they gaze in the appropriate direction, which is towards the highest hills in the neighborhood.
During this time, people in the southeast and the mid-Atlantic were getting ready for temperatures that would be higher than average. Some areas anticipated temperatures that would be between 30 and 40 degrees Fahrenheit (16.5-22 degrees Celsius) higher than typical.
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