The death toll from a Buffalo-area blizzard rose to 27 in western New York, authorities said Monday. Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz described the blizzard as “the worst storm probably in our lifetime.'
The death toll from a Buffalo-area blizzard rose to 27 in western New York, authorities said Monday as the region reeled from one of the worst weather-related disasters in its history. Much of the rest of the United States was hit by ferocious winter conditions.
Scientists said that the warming Earth may have contributed to the intensity of the storm. That’s because the atmosphere can carry more water vapor, which acts as fuel, said Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder. With many grocery stores in the Buffalo area closed and driving bans in place, some people pleaded on social media for donations of food and diapers.
Relief is coming this week, with forecasts calling for temperatures to slowly rise, said Ashton Robinson Cook, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.— when atmospheric pressure drops very quickly in a strong storm — has weakened. It developed near the Great Lakes, stirring up heavy winds and snow.
Freezing conditions and power outages had Buffalonians scrambling to get anywhere with heat amid what Hochul called the longest sustained blizzard conditions ever in the city.that an outage knocked out power to her 1-year-old son’s ventilator. She and the child’s father manually administered breaths from Friday until Sunday, when rescuers saw her desperate social media posts and came to their aid.
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