In the US, winter storm Blair is bringing the “heaviest snowfall” and coldest temperatures in over a decade.
The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued alerts for more than 30 US States, spanning from Kansas to the East Coast, warning of ‘whiteout conditions’ and roads becoming impassable.
Up to 250 million people across States are in the storm’s path, facing dangerously low temperatures and hazardous travel conditions. Around 63 million people in the US are under some kind of winter weather advisory.
This disruptive storm has covered roads with snow and also brought snowfall to several cities such as Kansas and Kentucky that typically don’t see much at all, prompting the National Guard to come to the aid of stranded motorists. School closures, flight disruptions and trees falling over are only to be expected. On Sunday, Virginia state police alone reported at least 135 crashes, without any fatalities.
Winter storm Blair is the result of an ‘Arctic outbreak’, which results from a polar vortex – a “very cold air mass that typically originates in the Siberian region of Asia, crosses over the North Pole into Canada and pushes south and east into the lower United States,” the NWS explains.
(National Herald)
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