Arctic blast sweeping across US puts holiday travel in peril
‘Powerful, powerful system’ to bring snow and life-threatening wind chill from upper midwest to Gulf coast and eastern US
An Arctic blast surged across the US on Wednesday, bringing bitter cold and life-threatening wind chills ahead of a powerful winter storm expected to complicate holiday travel for millions.
About 200 million people in the lower 48 states were under extreme weather alerts as a freezing air mass descended from the northern Plains, sending temperatures into a nosedive, said Bob Oravec, a forecaster with the National Weather Service (NWS).
