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A winter storm is bringing heavy snow, ice and freezing rain to the central part of the country, resulting in thousands of canceled flights. What's next for this brutal weather system? The Weather Channel's Jim Cantore reports.
By Daniella Silva and F. Brinley Bruton, NBC News
A winter storm was hitting vast areas east of the Rockies Sunday, after having left hundreds of thousands of people in Texas and Arkansas without power.
"What's happening across most of the country is we're getting a very early taste of winter," Mike Muscher, a National Weather Service meteorologist, told Reuters. "This is something you'd typically see in January or February."
The wave of icy and dangerous weather was spreading eastward to Virginia and up to New England on Sunday through Monday. New York City's Department of Sanitation issued a "snow alert" for Sunday.
At the height of the storm, some 267,000 electricity outages were reported in Texas, according to utility provider Oncor. That number was down to about 75,000 late on Saturday, and Oncor said it hoped to restore power to "nearly all" of its customers by Sunday night.
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Bob Nations Jr., director of the emergency operations command center for the Memphis area, warned that ice coating roads, bridges and overpasses have been behind several multi-vehicle crashes. He advised drivers to be extremely cautious, especially on bridges and overpasses.
Tony Gutierrez / AP
Ice covered vehicles sit in a automotive dealer lot Saturday in Lewisville, Texas.
Snow was expected throughout the Mid-Atlantic, followed by sleet and freezing rain creating “slick travel conditions and the possibility of power outages,” said Chris Dolce, a meteorologist at the Weather Channel.
“Travel delays are probably the biggest human impact,” he said. “If you are in an affected area, stay indoors. Don’t risk traveling if you don’t have to. Wait until the roads get treated and taken care of.”
In Virginia, state Emergency Management spokeswoman Laura Southard said the storm had the potential to be an "historic ice event."
"This forecast is very concerning to us," Southard told The Associated Press on Saturday. "I've worked multiple disasters, but I've never worked an ice storm with a forecast like this. It's just really important for everybody to take extra precautions."
Meanwhile, some 300 big rig drivers have been stranded for more than 24 hours at a truck stop along I-35 just north of Denton.
"There are certain things that a driver has no control over, and this is one of them," said Stephen Tisdale, a trucker from Fort Smith, Arkansas. Tisdale told NBC DFW he was supposed to deliver the load he is hauling to Colorado by Saturday night. Instead, his truck is stuck in the icy parking lot at the Travel-centers of America off of the Krum exit of Interstate 35.
"You gotta get off the road to be safe. So that's what a lot of us had to do," he added.
According to Weather.com, the mid-Atlantic, Ohio Valley and Midwest would feel the effects of the powerful winter storm in the coming days. Forecasters said even Las Vegas could see snowy showers before Monday. A marathon planned for Sunday in Dallas was canceled.
Baltimore and Philadelphia could also see a few inches of snow, followed by freezing rain and sleet beginning Sunday. By Monday, the wintry mess will extend as far as New York, parts of Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Maine, forecasters said.
The winter weather is expected to linger, with continued snow and lower than normal temperatures persisting in states through the middle of the week, said Kelsey Angle, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
The storm has already cut a wide swathe. Jordan, Montana, set a record-low temperature for Dec. 7 - 42 degrees below zero.
Deadly weather has gripped the U.S., cancelling flights and causing deaths. The cold weather is expected to continue, with snow and ice in the forecast. NBC's Mark Potter and TODAY's Dylan Dreyer report.
It slammed into the West Coast on Saturday, adding to wintry woes that left icy roads and power outages stretching from Texas to the Rockies late Friday. The new storm dumped heavy snow in parts of California and Oregon and closed Interstate 5 – the major north-south artery – for several hours on the Grapevine, north of Los Angeles.
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport cancelled more than 900 flights on Saturday due to the weather, bringing the three-day total to more than 2,800. And 3,300 people spent the night at the airport, officials said.
That was having a domino effect in other parts of the country. Nearly a thousand flights were canceled on Friday.
Brenda and Doug Jones, who live in a Dallas suburb and had planned to travel to Aruba for their honeymoon, said they decided to go home after waiting 14 hours at the airport.
Most people at the airport were in good spirits despite the conditions, they said.
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"People were trying to help each other out," Brenda Jones said.
Well, after -4 F this morning here in SW Idaho, we went to Church at 11 AM and it was all of 2 degrees F. Now, after Church and home at almost 2:30 PM we are at all of 7 degrees F and I believe that is going to be our high for today.
If it clears, I would not be surprised to see -10 F (that's -23.3 C) tomorrow morning.
If it clears, I would not be surprised to see -10 F (that's -23.3 C) tomorrow morning.
It's been snowing all day very lightly. We have about 3 inches on the ground and it's very cold. 19F right now.
Luke 6:38
New King James Version (NKJV)
38 Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.”
I've been around the World three times and seen so many different wonderful and horrible events in my life.. but toady I saw one of the most blessed events I've ever witnessed.
My church has a day care with 180 children. They and their families were all invited to a special Sunday service today. 135 children with their families showed up. We had a total of 351 folks attending the service this morning. The most ever in the history of our church. Our normal Sunday attendance is about 170.
Our Church gave each child a gift certificate for $25 from Toy's R Us. and sixty blessed children were given a bike of some sort via a random drawing..
Our Pastor ,Jay Eberly, kept his sermon very short only about 20 minutes..offering salvation through Jesus for those lost. About 12 folks or so were saved. Amen
what was so awesome is seeing the joy on those families faces when those children received their gift..realizing that gift came from Gods church.
Many in our normal congregation wanted to call the Tv media because this sort of event is news in Iowa..our pastor would not allow this. Why?
The media has a twisted way of mis-representing Christians but most of all ..this..
Jesus drove demons out of a man and told him this because the man wanted to be one of his disciples;
Mark 5:19
New King James Version (NKJV)
19 However, Jesus did not permit him, but said to him, “Go home to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how He has had compassion on you.”
Amen..
Luke 6:38
New King James Version (NKJV)
38 Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.”
I've been around the World three times and seen so many different wonderful and horrible events in my life.. but toady I saw one of the most blessed events I've ever witnessed.
My church has a day care with 180 children. They and their families were all invited to a special Sunday service today. 135 children with their families showed up. We had a total of 351 folks attending the service this morning. The most ever in the history of our church. Our normal Sunday attendance is about 170.
Our Church gave each child a gift certificate for $25 from Toy's R Us. and sixty blessed children were given a bike of some sort via a random drawing..
Our Pastor ,Jay Eberly, kept his sermon very short only about 20 minutes..offering salvation through Jesus for those lost. About 12 folks or so were saved. Amen
what was so awesome is seeing the joy on those families faces when those children received their gift..realizing that gift came from Gods church.
Many in our normal congregation wanted to call the Tv media because this sort of event is news in Iowa..our pastor would not allow this. Why?
The media has a twisted way of mis-representing Christians but most of all ..this..
Jesus drove demons out of a man and told him this because the man wanted to be one of his disciples;
Mark 5:19
New King James Version (NKJV)
19 However, Jesus did not permit him, but said to him, “Go home to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how He has had compassion on you.”
Amen..
Praise the Lord BD, that's so wonderful, we have lots of little people in our fellowship as well, and one of our church ladies takes the children downstairs each Sunday after the music service, we had our Christmas dinner at church this evening and had a great crowd in spite of the weather, one of our twins is going to have braces and I had asked a couple of people to pray for us as it will cost over 5,000 dollars, there was an offering envelope on the piano that my wife plays during worship, on the outside was written, help for Mollies dental bill, in the envelope was 500 dollars. I had noticed my wife was weeping during the whole message, and after the invitation she had stood up and given a testimony about worrying about money, and how we would pay this or that, and how the Lord always provides. After we had greeted our congregation as they left she got out the envelope and handed it to me, we are both just so blessed by the love and support of our church family, it is just so wonderful to be loved by the Lord, and to worship with his children. I just pray that each one of our brothers on the Sino Defense forum would know that wonderful blessing, and know what a wonderful blessing they each one are to me, and I know you feel that way as well, thanks for sharing and blessings to each of you this Christmas season!
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C'mon man up you guys, that would be like a balmy summers day to your fellow Americans. May I suggest you don't try running around butt naked though.
Newly analysed Nasa satellite data from east Antarctica shows Earth has set a new record for coldest temperature ever recorded: -94.7C (-135.8F).
It happened in August 2010 when it hit -94.7C (-135.8F). Then on 31 July of this year, it came close again: -92.9C (-135.3F).
The old record had been -89.2C (-128.6F).
Ice scientist Ted Scambos at the National Snow and Ice Data Centre announced the cold facts at the American Geophysical Union scientific meeting in San Francisco on Monday.
"It's more like you'd see on Mars on a nice summer day in the poles," said Scambos. "I'm confident that these pockets are the coldest places on Earth."
However, it won't be in the Guinness Book of World Records because these were satellite measured, not from thermometers, Scambos said.
"Thank God, I don't know how exactly it feels," he said. But he said scientists do routinely make naked -73C (-100F) dashes outside in the south pole as a stunt, so people can survive that temperature for about three minutes.
Most of the time researchers need to breathe through a snorkel that brings air into the coat through a sleeve and warms it up "so you don't inhale by accident" the cold air, Scambos said.
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Dude, you are so, like...yesterday.
Early in the administration of the "chosen one," ... he who would cause the rising waters to recede and the planet to heal...they changed that old tired (and demonstrably disproven) terminology.
It's Global Climate Change now...that way, no matter what happens, they can blame it on us "evil capitalists", and the "ignorant emerging nations", and make more billions off of the useful idiots who they sucker in to that poppycock.