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The 2020–21 North American winter was the most significant winter season to affect North America in several years, and the costliest on record, with a damage total of at least $33.35 billion (2021 USD).
[3] [4] The system is estimated to have caused at least $2 billion (2021 USD) in damages, mainly due to blackouts and structural damage. [5] [6] Excluding the winter storm a few days previous to this storm, the system was the costliest winter storm in the United States since the March 1–3, 2018 nor'easter, and the deadliest since the Blizzard ...
The winter storm caused power grids to fail across the U.S., causing blackouts for over 5.2 million homes and businesses, the vast majority of which were in the state of Texas, which became one of the largest blackout events in modern U.S. history, [12] [13] [41] the largest one since the Northeast blackout of 2003. [17]
Last winter, both publications predicted a cold and snowy northeast, and while North Jersey did see a few measurable storms, winter in the Garden State was the ninth warmest on record, and snow ...
Natural gas futures surged 24% with a cold spell expected across the eastern half of the US. Forecasts call for below-average temperatures on the East Coast and parts of the Midwest for January.
In its first complete tracking week, “Woman’s World” debuted at No. 63 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, and at No. 65 on the Global 200, and at No. 47 in the U.K.
On February 7, 2021 Uranium City, Saskatchewan, equaled their all time coldest temperature of −48.9 °C (−56.0 °F) previously recorded on January 15, 1974. [13] In Winnipeg, Manitoba , the high temperature did not rise above −20.0 °C (−4.0 °F) for 9 consecutive days, the longest period since 1996. [ 14 ]
July 1–14 – Hurricane Elsa kills 13 people, and caused $1.2 billion (2021 USD) in damage in the Caribbean, the United States, and Canada. [187] July 3 – The 2021 Atami landslide occurs in Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, killing 27. The landslide was a result of heavy rainfall with the city receiving 310 millimetres (12 inches) of ...