“Please take this storm extremely seriously,” urged President Joe Biden during a television speech.
A large part of the United States is under catastrophic weather conditions and where it is very dangerous to move.
Thousands of flights delayed or canceled as Christmas approaches, icy temperatures and strong snowfall: the first effects of a “cyclonic bomb” are already there.
The freezing front in the United States must strengthen this Friday and continue during the Christmas weekend. His power made the NWS agency in Buffalo, in New York State said, that it was “a storm only occurring once by generation”. The Midwest and the Great Lakes region will be particularly affected at the end of the week, with Blizzard.
The temperature felt in the large plains region should reach up to -55 ° C.
More than 5,500 flights were canceled Thursday and 24,000 delayed, according to the Flightaware flight tracking site. Chicago and Denver airports were particularly affected.
