The bad weather caused by the winter season continues to wreak havoc in some regions of the United States and it is now the northeast of the country that is being affected the most by low temperatures and snowfall.
In fact, until last Monday more than 1,700 flights had to be canceled due to bad weather, while another 3,800 suffered delays, according to the portal fligthware.com.
The death of 2 people in North Carolina was also recorded. The car they were traveling in veered off the road due to poor visibility, leading to the fatal accident. To this we must add the different power outages in different parts of the US
Throughout Monday, near 69,861 families were left without electricity and the failure lasted until the early hours of Tuesday, with the states most affected by the blackouts being West Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Georgia and Florida.
El Paso of a strong winter storm that hit the south of the country over the weekend and moved north on Monday, leaving heavy snowfall over parts of the northeast and Canada.
Likewise, the Amtrak railway company canceled several trains in the Northeast, such as the one that connects Washington DC with New York or the one that operates between Richmond, Virginia, with Boston.
What’s coming from the winter storm
As recently reported by the National Weather Service (NWS, for its acronym in English), this day snowfall is forecast int insas, especially in the Great Lakes area.
Likewise, rains and heavy frosts were reported in the southern part of the valleys of the Ohio/Tennessee Valleys and the Middle/Lower Mississippi Valley that could occur on Wednesday.
The low temperature system could produce heavy snowfall in parts of the Upper Mississippi Valley, near Lake Superior and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, a situation that will extend to Wednesday 19 in January in the morning.
“Light snow will move into the lower Great Lakes through Tuesday night and into northern New England on Wednesday and Thursday morning,” indicates the NWS.
Since Sunday, heavy snowfall has been reported in various states. In Buffalo, New York, about 18 inches (45 centimeters) of snow that fell through Monday afternoon. This storm system also caused a foot or more of snow to fall in other parts of NY, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Similarly, strong storms were recorded over Florida that caused a tornado that reached winds up to 190 kilometers per hour (118 miles per hour) , which destroyed 30 mobile homes and damaged 51 plus. Fortunately, only 3 people were reported injured, none seriously.
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