![]() The disruptions have rippled across the country. High winds and blizzard-like conditions led to the closure of a 200-mile stretch of Interstate 90, which crosses much of the northern tier of the United States. ![]() ![]() The frigid temperatures create fluffier snow, which combined with 45- to 55-mile-per-hour wind gusts can make for white-out conditions and perilous travel.Īt least three people in Kansas and two in Oklahoma were killed in crashes that appeared to be related to the storm, officials said. “What makes this storm unusual is the combination,” said Brett Borchardt, a meteorologist from the Chicago office of the National Weather Service. Individually, the winds, snow and subzero temperatures are not all that troubling, forecasters said, but they have coalesced into something ferocious. The Arctic blast is not unusual, but this year it has combined with a “bomb cyclone” - a rapidly intensifying storm - to bring about these extreme wind chills. In some places it could plummet as low as 70 degrees below zero, which can cause frostbite in minutes. More than 150 million people are under warnings or advisories of wind chill temperatures that could dip to 40 degrees below zero in the Intermountain West and into the Plains. ![]() Christopher Smith for The New York Timesįorecasters said that the storm’s fury came from its scope, which covered most of the eastern half of the country, from the Canadian border to the Gulf Coast, under a mass of Arctic air that brought even colder wind chills. Sharon Hudson shoveled her sidewalk as the storm rolled through Fairway, Kan. ![]()
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