A major winter storm is impacting the Gulf Coast, bringing the first-ever blizzard warning to Beaumont, Texas, and Lake Charles and Lafayette, Louisiana. The storm is impacting over 265 million Americans, with dangerous temperatures and blizzard conditions across the South and East. Record-low temperatures have been reported, and widespread power outages and travel disruptions are expected.
A storm is bringing the first-ever blizzard warning issued for Beaumont, Texas , and Lake Charles and Lafayette, Louisiana.
That storm is bringing the first-ever blizzard warning issued for Beaumont, Texas, and Lake Charles and Lafayette,More than 12 million Americans are also under red flag warnings in southern California, with about 3 million tagged with a "particularly dangerous situation" as high winds and desperately dry conditions hold over the already reeling communities.
Rare record-low temps are possible in Kansas City, Missouri, and in Salina, Kansas. Even this afternoon, wind chills won't go above 15 degrees below zero in Chicago, Illinois.On Wednesday morning, the coldest wind chill temps will reach the Northeast where wind chills near zero will hit New York City and D.C. and go below zero in Boston. Farther south in the Great Smokey Mountains, Asheville, NC will feel like -2 on Wednesday morning.
Debilitating travel conditions are expected to be widespread and power outages will be possible -- which is dangerous in the life-threatening cold which could also burst pipes.
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