More than 2,200 flights were canceled across the United States by Thursday afternoon as a massive winter storm named Elliot upended holiday travel plans with a triple threat of heavy snow, howling winds and bitter cold.
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“This is not like a snow day when you were a kid,” President Joe Biden told reporters at a White House briefing on the weather and transport turmoil.Blinding whiteouts and hazardous road conditions were already being seen in parts of the country slammed by a dangerous cold front. AccuWeather forecasters have said the storm could rapidly strengthen into what is known as a “bomb cyclone” through a process known as “bombogenesis,” when the barometric pressure drops and a cold air mass collides with a warm air mass.
“People exposed to extreme cold are susceptible to frostbite in a matter of minutes,” the agency cautioned. “We created our own cloud @ -17° F at the #Missoula International Airport,” tweeted NWS Missoula, in the western state of Montana.In the Midwest, blizzard conditions stranded 100 motorists in Rapid City and Wall in South Dakota, the Pennington County Sheriff’s Office tweeted.In Minneapolis and Saint Paul, more than eight inches of snow accumulated over a 24-hour period, the NWS said in a Thursday morning update.
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