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2022 - 12 - 23

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US winter storm to bring coldest Christmas in decades (BBC News)

The once-in-a-generation weather event may reach pressure equivalent to a Category 3 hurricane.

They are referred to as bomb cyclones due to the explosive power caused by the rapid fall in pressure. Denver is forecast to face the brunt of the cold snap on Thursday morning as temperatures plummet to -16F. The NWS has called it a once-in-a-generation winter weather event, especially as the storm reaches the Great Lakes region, where its pressure is expected to reach the equivalent of a Category 3 hurricane. Named Winter Storm Elliot by the Weather Channel, the arctic blast is expected to deliver the coldest Christmas to the Midwest since the late 1980s, according to forecasts cited by US media. A major winter storm sweeping the US this week may bring the coldest Christmas in four decades to parts of the country, say forecasters. US winter storm to bring coldest Christmas in decades

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Winter Storm Live Updates: Bitter Cold and Heavy Snow Sweep ... (The New York Times)

A sprawling winter storm has snarled holiday travel across much of the country as dangerous conditions spread to the East Coast and South.

It also says to run the faucets that are farthest from your main valve, since even a trickle of water will keep pipes from freezing, and to open cupboards with pipes in order to keep the pipes warm. 2, with nearly 102 million of them planning to drive and more than seven million more taking to the skies. For states that are unaccustomed to cold weather, the temperatures could overwhelm the power grid, [as they did last year](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/us/texas-winter-storm-power-outages.html) when a winter storm pushed the Texas grid to the brink of collapse and put millions of people in uncomfortable and sometimes dangerous situations. In cases of severe hypothermia, the victim may be unconscious — and may seem not even to have a pulse, or to be breathing. Researchers have found that blood becomes more concentrated and thicker in the cold, as blood flow to the skin is reduced to conserve body heat. “The worst of the cold will last through Friday, and then we’ll begin to kind of warm up over the weekend.” to Newfoundland in the Canadian Maritimes and from Hudson Bay to Bermuda.” The rest of the route to Charleston — where he nurtured a fascination for weather living through hurricane after hurricane, but almost never a snowstorm — looked like it would be clear and peaceful, as the storm hits the northeast. Earlier in the week, three people were killed in Kansas and two in Oklahoma in vehicle crashes that appeared to be related to the storm, the authorities there said. He emerged to find the temperatures had plummeted and what had been light snow had intensified. “Whenever things don’t go the way you plan, just make a new plan, and try to make it as fun as possible.” [Power outages](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/12/23/us/winter-storm-snow-weather/999c6dc6-ac55-53db-99fa-900a7a4a586a?smid=url-share) across the country left more than a million customers without electricity and posed additional [dangers](https://twitter.com/AkronTXWX/status/1606250121259204609?s=20&t=ZSpXyQyDOgRopdXUYQrxsg) and delays for drivers.

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Weather warnings in US as Arctic freeze grips northern hemisphere (Financial Times)

Northern hemisphere experiences extreme Arctic temperatures. Map showing forecast minimum temperature 2m above ground,. A bitterly cold Arctic air mass has ...

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Winter storm stymies U.S. travel, cuts power to more than 1 million ... (Reuters)

More than two-thirds of the U.S. population was under an extreme weather alert on Friday as a deep freeze enveloped much of the country ahead of the holiday ...

Temperatures in regions could rebound by 40 to 60 degrees over the weekend as the cold air mass creeps east. But the freeze in the American South could prove to be an even bigger public safety threat, as those regions are less accustomed to the cold and snow. Extreme weather across the country has disrupted households and holiday plans just days before Christmas. Hard-freeze warnings were posted in parts of the Southern states of Louisiana, Alabama, Florida and Georgia. Temperatures dipped into the teens in Fahrenheit throughout Texas' south-central Hill Country on Friday morning, Dec 23 (Reuters) - More than two-thirds of the U.S.

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Intensifying winter storm's icy cold and wind knocks out power to ... (CNN)

The massive winter storm battering the US with frigid temperatures, high winds and heavy snow has left over a million customers without power as of Friday ...

Louis’ temperature dropped 44 degrees – in wind chill terms, a drop of 61 degrees, from 31 to minus 30. Declarations of a state of emergency in several states have included the activation of National Guard units. The air will continue to get and feel colder, especially during night hours. The storm’s pressure is forecast to match that of a Category 2 hurricane as it moves into the Great Lakes on Friday. “The ongoing major winter storm will continue to produce areas of heavy snow, strong winds, and life-threatening wind chills through Saturday. Cheyenne, Wyoming: Over about one hour, temperatures in Cheyenne dropped by 43 degrees. The warning applies to parts of Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota and Michigan. The forecast calls for near-record low temperatures for Christmas Eve Day on Saturday in cities including Washington DC and Atlanta and parts of Florida. Damaging winds behind the front have knocked out power to over 1.1 million customers as of 9:30 a.m. Other winter weather alerts are in effect for blizzard conditions, ice, snow as well as flooding. [Related: Follow live updates](https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/winter-storm-christmas-weather-forecast-12-23-2022/index.html) [flight cancellations](https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/friday-flight-cancellations/index.html) growing rapidly.

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US faces 'once in a generation' freeze for Christmas as bomb ... (The Guardian)

More than 200 million people in nearly every US state are under various winter weather alerts, including for wind chill, ice and heavy snow, as a huge winter ...

The Ohio governor, Mike DeWine, called it “a unique and dangerous situation”. The weather service’s map “depicts one of the greatest extents of winter weather warnings and advisories ever,” forecasters said. “The ongoing major winter storm will continue to produce areas of heavy snow, strong winds, and life-threatening wind chills through Saturday. In Kentucky three people died on the roads, Governor Andy Beshear announced on Friday morning. Power outages left more than 1.4 million homes and businesses in the dark, according to the website PowerOutage. Kansas City police spokeswoman Donna Drake said a minivan driver died Thursday after loosing control on icy streets and overturning into a creek.

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Icy Pileup On Michigan Interstate (The Weather Channel)

W​inter Storm Elliott is bringing widespread power outages, deadly travel conditions, thousands of flight cancellations, freezing weather and coastal flooding ...

This story does not necessarily represent the position of our parent company, IBM. As part of the declaration, the National Guard has been activated to deliver firewood to the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, which requested help as roads became impassable due to 10-foot snow drifts. The driver of the single-car crash was identified as Elliott is churning up high surf and coastal flooding in many areas. The other is on Interstate 190, from I-90 to exit 22. One is on Interstate 90 from exit 46 at Henrietta to the Pennsylvania border. Mandatory evacuations are in place along parts of the Lake Erie shoreline, Poloncarz said. We don’t want people on the roads. The other deaths occurred in Missouri, Nebraska, Kentucky and Oregon. The road is closed in both directions. Emergency personnel from multiple agencies are on the scene. The agency said outages will be brief and intermittent, and are necessary to keep the grid stable and prevent broader loss of power.

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NYC Mayor Leaves Town While New Yorkers Hunker Down for ... (Bloomberg)

New York City officials prepared for power outages, road closures and falling temperatures Friday — but without Mayor Eric Adams at City Hall.

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NYC weather: Wintry mix of rain, light snow and ice forecast ... (silive.com)

Temperatures in the 50s for the morning commute are anticipated to gradually decline into the teens at night.

>> The real feel will drop down into the single digits, according to AccuWeather.com. Temperatures will gradually decline during the day and down into the teens at night. and 4 p.m., according to Accuweather.com. A coastal flood warning is in effect from 6 a.m. STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.

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Volatile weather creates accessibility issues for NYC transit (News 12 New Jersey)

The heavy rain, high-speed winds and dropping temperatures have made reliable train service less accessible to some New Yorkers.

“Just look at the weather today. “If you don’t have access, it’s a waste of time trying to commute over here.” On days like today, it makes going anywhere even more of a challenge.

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Mayor Adams' whereabouts unknown as NYC experiences severe ... (Gothamist)

First Deputy Mayor Lorraine Grillo at the podium briefing New Yorkers on the city's handling of. Gothamist/Elizabeth Kim ...

In 2010, former Mayor Michael Bloomberg was criticized for the city’s response to a winter blizzard that hit the city over Christmas weekend. Joined by a flank of commissioners, she said the mayor had instructed them to deliver a briefing to New Yorkers. “He is coordinating all the city’s responses.” [severe coastal flooding](https://gothamist.com/news/broad-channel-flooded-ferries-suspended-more-flights-canceled-as-storm-bears-down) and residents were ordered to seek higher ground Friday morning. At a press conference at City Hall on Friday, Grillo gave an update on the city’s response to the weather event. [ mayor traveled to all five boroughs ](https://gothamist.com/news/snow-blankets-new-york-long-island-and-new-jersey-major-storm)during the first major snowstorm in January.

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NYC deep freeze in 'kitchen sink storm'; neighborhoods slammed by ... (New York Daily News)

The National Weather Service New York has issued a special weather statement for the city for rapidly falling temperatures with gusty winds, floods and ...

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Black Ice Threat Looms for Tri-State: Get Real-Time Transit Updates ... (NBC New York)

An NY Thruway driving ban is in place and the roads and rails are a mess. Here's the latest Winter Storm Elliott impacts.

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Transcript: City Hall Leadership Holds Storm Briefing (NYC.gov)

Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh: Sure. Thank you, first deputy mayor. As Lorraine mentioned, Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright and myself were on scene in Staten ...

Commissioner Iscol: Yeah, so there's four libraries that we worked with to make sure that they were open and available throughout the day that people could go to. Commissioner Iscol: Yeah, so we worked with the Red Cross to identify blocks of hotel rooms to make sure that those were ready if people needed them in advance of the storm. He might as well be here because we've been speaking to each other constantly throughout the day and speaking with all of us to keep updated on what's going on and to actually direct us to do this. One of the issues with the high winds that we have coming in later today is it could lead to down power lines, power outages. And in addition to this, because of the drop in temperatures, one of the prime objectives that we have in our winter weather plan is protecting vulnerable populations. We have these 600 additional personnel, that's about 300 additional trucks that are now located across the city in order to enable us to respond quickly to down to power outages and down power lines. In addition to that, that leads to potential for black ice because the amount of precipitation and water on the ground that we also need to prepare for, in addition to high winds up to 60 mile per hour gusts later today. In order to prepare for this event, some of the things that we did, Department of Sanitation, they've put 20 million pounds of salt out on the street. In addition to that, the NYPD has activated the Joint Traffic Management Center in order to make sure we are tracking any traffic issues, any power outages that could lead to traffic issues with traffic lights, et cetera. In addition to that, and we sort of transitioned out of that phase, now we're starting to prepare the city for the next phase, which is going to be a precipitous drop in temperature, going down to the low teens, single digits over the weekend. There was a fire on the second floor of a two-family home in Staten Island that took the lives of two very young children, and injured four other children, two of which remain in very critical condition at the hospital. This is really an unspeakable tragedy for that family, for the neighborhood, for the local community, and for our whole city.

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Rockaways underwater as winter storm bears down on New York (New York Post)

Several feet of floodwater swamped the Rockaways Friday as a ferocious Christmas-weekend storm struck New York — leaving cars almost submerged and residents ...

“They didn’t say we were going to get a lot of flooding, nothing. “Water is a whole other beast at that point.” We expected the storm, but we didn’t expect the flood.” “Mostly because the kids’ [Christmas] presents were in the basement. “I’m fighting tears,” she told The Post. Footage obtained by The Post shows NYPD officers rushing to the rescue of a woman and two children who became stuck on a school bus surrounded by floodwater on Burchell Avenue and Beach 72nd Street in Rockaway Beach on Friday morning.

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Winter storm Elliott: Flight delays and Christmas packages stalled as ... (The Independent)

At least five people have been killed, more than 1.1 million customers are without power and thousands of flights cancelled or delayed as a historic polar ...

Wind chill is driving temperatures to minus 40 degrees in some parts of western states. No details have been released on the cause of the crash or of the person killed in the accident. This is serious stuff,” he said. Extreme winter weather is blasting large parts of the United States, from Indiana to coastal New York In Florida, as of noon, over 200 flights were delayed and 36 were canceled at Miami International Airport. All together, 8,425 US flights have been delayed and 5,125 have been canceled as of Friday evening, The fatalities were a combination of auto wrecks and people being exposed to the elements directly. At least eight people have died because of the storm sweeping across the country, in states including Oklahoma, Kentucky, Missouri, and Wisconsin, NBC Officials say that buses were used to collect and take people from the scene of the accident to a nearby facility to keep them warm in freezing temperatures. The Ohio State Highway Patrol says that the crash happened in the eastbound lanes of the Ohio Turnpike in Sandusky County on Friday morning. [according to the New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/12/23/us/winter-storm-snow-weather). At least eight people have been killed, more than 1.1 million customers are without power, and thousands of flights have been cancelled or delayed as a historic polar vortex swept the United States this holiday season.

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Winter Storm Elliott: Coastal Flooding Hits Northeast; Deadly Pileup ... (Wunderground.com)

About 73,000 power outages are being reported in Tennessee right now, according to PowerOutage.us. (​3:58 p.m. ET) At Least One Dead In Ohio Pileup. A​t least ...

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