Winter storm pummels east coast of America
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A massive winter storm that drove parts of the southern US into a deep freeze over the weekend kept a tight grip on the region yesterday while bitter temperatures, snow and ice spread through the east coast.
The brutal storm dumped snow, sleet and freezing rain from Baltimore to north of Portland, Maine, according to the National Weather Service.
At the same time, freezing temperatures were expected from the Great Lakes and Lower Mississippi Valley to the Rockies, the NWS said.
Temperatures in Jordan, Montana, fell to a record low of minus 41 degrees Celsius on Saturday, the lowest temperature recorded during the storm.
The storm system over the weekend coated roads and highways from Virginia through southeastern Pennsylvania with snow and ice, making travel treacherous.
On a highway near Philadelphia, more than 50 cars and trucks were caught in a series of chain-reaction crashes on the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Sunday afternoon. One man was killed when he left his vehicle, officials said.
Frigid temperatures persisted in the nation’s midsection and travel was snarled in airports and along roadways due to icy conditions.
More than 2,500 flights were canceled nationwide on Sunday, according to tracking website Flightaware.com. Airports in Newark, New Jersey, New York City, and Philadelphia, among others, reported delays.
Up to 12.7 centimeters of snow was forecast from Washington DC into Philadelphia overnight into today, and up to 10 cm of snow was expected for New York by this morning, forecasters said.
Officials said federal offices in Washington would open 2 hours late due to the harsh weather and gave workers the option of working from home.
About 650 travelers were stranded overnight in the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on Sunday, officials said, an improvement from more than 2,000 that slept on cots and chairs on Saturday night and 4,000 people on Friday night.
The storm also battered Arkansas and Tennessee with ice and snow. At least three people were killed when their cars skidded off roads.
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