A snowstorm led to power outages to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in parts of the American Midwest and Pacific Northwest on Saturday, with many states expected to be paralyzed due to the accumulation of ice.
The National Weather Service said the storm will bring heavy snow, high winds and gusts to the Midwest, with temperatures expected to reach dangerously low levels of freezing across the Rockies and Plains.
The storm caused the cancellation and delay of more than 7,600 flights across the United States, and power was cut off to more than 151,000 homes and businesses in Michigan, and power was cut off to more than 200,000 subscribers in the states of Oregon and Wisconsin.
In the state of Iowa, candidates competing for the Republican Party’s nomination to run in the presidential elections canceled some events before the state’s caucuses are held tomorrow, Monday, at the beginning of a race in the states during which the parties choose their candidates to run in the presidential elections last November.
Earlier, he pledged Donald Trump He – the most likely to win the nomination ticket from the Republican Party – participated in electoral rallies despite the bad weather conditions, but he changed that and preferred to participate via video “out of caution.”
Wind and snow
The National Weather Service forecast arctic winds and a wave of extreme cold, warning of “dangerously cold winds” reaching minus 43 degrees Celsius in Iowa and throughout the region over the weekend.
Snowfall of 5 centimeters or more is also expected in the state, and even 25 centimeters in some areas.
The National Weather Service said Montana and the Dakotas could see temperatures as low as minus 45 degrees Celsius. “These extreme temperatures mean there is a risk of frostbite on exposed skin and hypothermia,” the agency warned.
Forecasters said there could be significant snow accumulation in parts of Oregon, Idaho and Utah, while snow and freezing rain were expected Saturday in the South and Northeast.
The storms come on the heels of extremely cold weather that struck much of the United States earlier in the week, causing a number of deaths and power outages to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses.
