The extreme winter weather was blamed for at least four deaths on Friday.
Arctic cold extended its grip over much of the United States on Friday, December 23, combining with snow, ice, and howling winds from a major winter storm roaring out of the Great Lakes to disrupt energy supplies and thwart travel for millions of Americans ahead of the holiday weekend.
“Please stay home and stay safe,” Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, he said on Twitter, announcing the deaths. Numbing cold intensified by high winds extended through the Deep South to the US-Mexico border, bringing single-digit wind chill factors to the border city of El Paso, Texas. Exposure to such conditions can cause frostbite within minutes.
The map of existing or impending wintry hazards “depicts one of the greatest extents of winter weather warnings and advisories ever,” the agency said.With the nation’s energy systems strained by rising demand for heat, as well as by storm-related damage to transmission lines, an estimated 1.5 million US homes and businesses were left without power on Friday, according to tracking site Poweroutage.us.
Nearly 5,000 US flights were canceled Friday, according to flight-tracking service FlightAware. About 500 flights into or out of Seattle’s major airport were axed as a separate storm system brought ice and freezing rain to the Pacific Northwest. Weather forecasters said the massive storm over the Midwest had materialized into a “bomb cyclone” – a phenomenon caused by a drastic, rapid drop in atmospheric pressure that forms a kind of cold-weather hurricane.
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