2024-01-17 15:12:00
Migrant men wait outside St. Brigid School near Tompkins Square Park, on the sidewalk during cold weather in the East Village area of New York City.
Parts of the northwestern United States were under an ice storm warning until Wednesday morning, which threatened to add to the damage caused by a powerful winter system that hit the region over the weekend.
A snowman is built in front of the Washington Monument on the National Mall after a snowfall in Washington.
In southwestern Washington state and western Oregon — including the cities of Portland, Salem and Eugene — 6 to 25 millimeters (0.25 to an inch) of ice are expected, while the Seattle area is expected I anticipated freezing rain.
A person walks through the snow and cold that hit Chelsea, Iowa.
Schools were closed in many places, bus circulation was reduced and shelters for homeless people were opened. Authorities warned of poor road conditions and the possibility of new power outages as teams of workers tried to restore service to thousands of users who had been without electricity for days.
A woman dips her boot in a pond on the National Mall after a snowfall in Washington.
The forecast comes as much of the United States faces frigid weather that in some parts endangered power supplies. Another day of frigid temperatures swept through much of the Rockies, Great Plains and the north-central part of the country on Tuesday, with a wind chill of -34.4 degrees Celsius (-30 Fahrenheit) extending to the middle of the Valley. Mississippi. On the East Coast, New York and Philadelphia saw heavy snowfall.
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes plays in the middle of the cold snap.
It was 5 degrees in Chicago (minus 15 degrees Celsius) and 6 degrees (minus 14.4 degrees Celsius) in Detroit, making both cities significantly colder than Alaska’s capital, Juneau, where it was 18 degrees (minus 7 .8 degrees Celsius).
Tyson Ropp uses an ax to cut several inches of ice in a storage tank at the Double Cross Cattle Company ranch, south of Roberts, Mont. The cold was expected to last several more days.
The Tennessee Valley Authority, which supplies electricity in seven states, asked its customers to voluntarily reduce consumption due to the increase in energy demand due to the cold. The grid operator in Texas made a similar request.
After a snowfall blanketed the Washington region, a child licks a snowball while playing at the Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia.
In Oregon, transportation officials closed 47 miles (76 kilometers) of Interstate 84, a major east-west cross-country highway from Portland through the Columbia River Gorge, because of the threat of ice.
An emergency medical vehicle drives on an icy road as cold weather moves through Dallas, Texas.
In the mountains, the National Weather Service warned of heavy snow in the Cascade Range with wind gusts of up to 50 mph (80 kilometers/hour), plus freezing rain and ice, which could make travel “very difficult.” or impossible.” Authorities activated a storm warning until Thursday afternoon.
A Buffalo Bills fan sits between snow-covered seats as he waits for the start of an NFL wild card playoff football game between the Buffalo Bills and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The northwest of the country is best known for rain and doesn’t typically experience these types of arctic temperatures, but the heavily forested region is especially prone to downed trees and power lines, especially during ice storms.
A man prepares to remove snow along a sidewalk on State Street in St. Joseph, Michigan. Residents are digging after a winter storm swept across the state with winds and drifts and temperatures in the single digits. A child has fun in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)
On a map of global temperatures over the past few days, large portions of the world — the Arctic, Asia, parts of Africa, the Middle East and South America — appear dark red, meaning about 7 degrees Celsius — or 12 degrees Fahrenheit. above the average of the end of the 20th century. But the United States stands out as a bluish-purple stain, only because it is cold.
A person and a dog run through the snow at Rock Creek Park in Washington.
The wind chill in some areas of North Dakota reached 56°C below zero (70°F below zero), while in Miami it was 33°C (92°F). The fourth coldest American football game in NFL history was played in Kansas City, while in the rest of the world the thermometer on Friday read no less than 33 ° C (92 ° F), which is 6.8 ° C (12°F) warmer than average during the Australian Open in Melbourne. During the night, records for warm temperatures were broken in Aruba, Curacao, some areas of Argentina, Oman and Iran.
A maintenance worker walks with a snow shovel before the Iowa state caucus vote in West Des Moines, Iowa.
“When the Arctic warms more than necessary (like now), the intense cold is more likely to invade places like Texas, which are not prepared to deal with it,” explains Jennifer Francis, a climatologist at the Woodwell Research Center and a pioneer in the theory. of Arctic amplification, which links cold outbreaks to climate change. “Rapid warming of the Arctic is one of the clearest symptoms of human-caused climate change, making extreme winters more likely even as the planet warms overall.”
Forecasters predict the frigid weather will persist through midweek in the Intermountain West.
The way the cold is creeping up on us is through a weather phrase increasingly familiar to Americans: The polar vortex. It is a meteorological term that dates back to 1853, but has only been used frequently in the last decade.
With the negative daytime high temperature well below zero and light snow falling, a motorist removes snow from the windshield of a vehicle in Denver.
Despite the American cold, Earth’s global average temperature continues to flirt with daily, weekly and monthly records, as it has for more than seven months. This is because the United States only represents 2% of the Earth’s surface, scientists explain.
Workers clear a snow-covered sidewalk in West Des Moines, Iowa.
“In places like Chicago, Denver, Lincoln, Omaha, Oklahoma City, Dallas or Houston, we’re all experiencing it,” said Northern Illinois University meteorology professor Victor Gensini, who said the temperature outside his window Tuesday was 6 degrees Fahrenheit below zero. “If you look at it on a global scale, we are an isolated bubble.”
(with information from AP and images from AP, Archyde.com)
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