In Buffalo, New York, forecasters predicted a “once-in-a-generation storm” because of heavy lake-effect snow, wind gusts as high as 105 kilometres per hour (65 miles per hour), whiteouts and the potential for extensive power outages. 12-23-2022 Buffalo, NY - Historic Blizzard - Heavy snow - white out. “My toes were freezing off,” he said with a sleeping bag wrapped around his head near a flimsy tent where another homeless person was taking shelter. In the city’s downtown, Steven Venus tried to get on a light-rail train to escape the cold after huddling on the sidewalk overnight in below-zero temperatures. In Portland, Oregon, officials opened four emergency shelters. “We are not sending anyone back into this cold,” Aisha Morrell-Ferguson, a spokeswoman for COTS, a family-only shelter, told the Detroit News. The cold has led to high demand at homeless shelters, including in Detroit, where some shelters were at capacity on Thursday. They want me home for Christmas, but they want me to be safe too.” Sherrod was debating whether to drive or risk booking a Saturday flight that she worries will also be cancelled: “My family is calling.
That will stir up blizzard-like conditions, including high winds and heavy snow.Īmong those passengers with cancelled flights was Ashley Sherrod, who planned to fly from Nashville, Tennessee, to Flint, Michigan, on Thursday afternoon. The phenomenon is forecast to develop near the Great Lakes. “This is serious stuff.”įorecasters are expecting a bomb cyclone when atmospheric pressure drops very quickly in a strong storm. “This is not like a snow day when you were a kid,” US President Joe Biden warned on Thursday after a briefing from federal officials. In Canada, the storm caused caused widespread flight cancellations and school closures, and knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of customers in Ontario and Quebec. Hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses were without power. More than 5,200 flights within, into or out of the US were cancelled by Friday, according to the tracking site FlightAware, causing more mayhem as travellers try to make it home for the year-end holidays. The agency’s weather map “depicts one of the greatest extents of winter weather warnings and advisories ever”, forecasters said in a statement. The wind and the snow may cause a power outage and collapse roofs. Imagine snow so deep that second graders can’t see over the top of it.
Snow whirling around in wind blowing faster than highway speed limits makes the whole world look white. NOAA National Weather Service images by Ben Jacquot. More than 200 million people, or about 60 percent of the United States population, were under some form of winter weather advisory or warning on Friday, the National Weather Service said. Blowing snow during a blizzard reduces visibility.
Tens of millions of Americans are enduring bone-chilling temperatures, blizzard-like conditions, power outages and cancelled holiday gatherings due to a winter storm that forecasters say is nearly unprecedented in its scope.
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