This past week, a massive winter storm made its way across the U.S., blanketing parts of the country in snow while bringing severe weather and tornadoes to others. Learn more about this week's EarthFromOrbit video:
The now well-traveled storm began its journey late last week with an arctic blast in the Pacific Northwest, shutting down much of Oregon’s largest city with almost a foot of snow and paralyzing travel from parts of the Pacific Coast all the way to the northern Plains. The nearly 11 inches that fell in Portland amounted to the second snowiest day in the city’s history.
At one point over the weekend, snow was falling at rates of 2.5 inches per hour in places like Lake Arrowhead, California. In the mountains outside of Los Angeles, anywhere from 2 to 6 feet of snow have fallen since Wednesday. A dusting of snow even reached the Hollywood Hills and the hills around San Francisco.
In Wyoming, roads across much of the southern part of the state were impassable, state officials said. Rescuers tried to reach stranded motorists, but high winds and drifting snow created a “near-impossible situation,” said Sgt. Jeremy Beck of the Wyoming Highway Patrol. In Arizona, several interstates and other highways were closed due to high winds, falling temperatures and blowing snow. Forecasters said snow could fall as rapidly as 2 to 3 inches per hour.
In hard-hit southeastern Michigan, still reeling from the ice storm and high winds, the state’s two main utilities—DTE Energy and Consumers Energy—reported more than 93,000 homes and businesses without power Monday morning. More than 61,000 of those were DTE customers.
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