Brutal blizzards and a heat record, the United States is divided by severe weather

A severe winter storm forced the closure of important arterial routes fromArizona to Wyoming In the past few hours, a provocation Blackouts This affected hundreds of thousands of people and prompted the authorities to issue their first blizzard warning the snow in Southern California for decades.

Wave bad weather Winter has hit the northern United States hard. adverse circumstances weather forecast It led to the cancellation of more than 1,600 flights in the country, according to FlightAware. More than 400 of those were scheduled to arrive at or depart from Minneapolis-St. pee. Another 5,000 flights have been delayed.

In Wyoming, emergency responders reached out to people stranded in vehicles however Strong wind And the snow They createdAlmost impossible situationSergeant Jeremy Beck said. The Wyoming Department of Transportation said roads in most of the southern part of the state are impassable.

Bad weather also affected Cascade Mountainsand prevent the search parties from recovering the bodies 3 climbers killed in an avalanche at Kolchuk Peak Washington over the weekend.

Strong wind swept CaliforniaCutting down trees and power lines. According to PowerOutage.us, more than 65,000 customers in the state were without power Wednesday evening local time. For the first time since 1989, a notice of Blizzard For the mountains of Los Angeles and Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, as of 4 a.m. Thursday through 4 p.m. Saturday, National Weather Service.

More than 200 miles (320 km) of Interstate 40 from central Arizona to New Mexico was closed due to snow, rain and gusts of wind until 130 km / h.

more than 45 cm of snow can accumulate in parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin National Weather Service. According to the National Weather Service, the most snow ever recorded in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul) was 28 inches from October 31 to November 3, 1991. Temperatures can drop below -29 degrees Celsius Essam today -32 degrees Celsius Tomorrow in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Cool winds may cause temperatures to drop -46 degrees Celsiussaid meteorologist Nathan Rick. Wind gusts can reach 80 km/h in western and central Minnesota, creating severe blizzard and whitewashing conditions, according to the NWS.

Where it doesn’t snow, dangerous amounts of it can be ice. Forecasters expect up to 1.3 cm of ice in parts of southern Michigan, northern Illinois, and some eastern states.

As the northern United States faces a winter storm, NWS meteorologist Richard Bann said some mid-Atlantic and Southeast cities New high temperature records. Peak in Lexington, Kentucky, which he achieved + 24 ° C, breaking the February 22 (+21°C) record set 101 years ago. Nashville, Tennessee was hit + 26 ° Cexceeding the 1897 record by 4 °C.