Plummeting temperatures have been predicted to bring the coldest Christmas Eve on record to several cities in America.
An arctic blast has gripped much of the United States driving power outages, flight cancellations and car wrecks, as plummeting temperatures were predicted to bring the coldest Christmas Eve on record to several cities from Pennsylvania to Georgia.
The flurry of yuletide temperature records were predicted as a US deep freeze sharpened by perilous wind chills continued to envelop much of the eastern two-thirds of the nation into the holiday weekend. Two motorists were killed, and numerous others injured, in a 50-vehicle pileup that shut down the Ohio Turnpike in both directions during a blizzard near Toledo, forcing an evacuation of stranded motorists by bus to keep them from freezing in their cars, officials said.Three more weather-related fatalities were confirmed in neighbouring Kentucky - two from car accidents and one a homeless person who died of exposure.
The NWS said its map of existing or impending meteorological hazards “depicts one of the greatest extents of winter weather warnings and advisories ever”.With energy systems across the country strained by rising demand for heat and storm-related damage to transmission lines, as many as 1.8 million US homes and businesses were left without power as of early Saturday morning, according to tracking site Poweroutage.us.
Nearly 2000 US flights were cancelled on Saturday, with total delays of more than 4000, according to flight-tracking service FlightAware. More than 5000 flights were cancelled on Friday, the flight tracking said.
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