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The snow accumulation at Pensacola (8.9 inches), New Orleans (8 inches) & Mobile (7.5 inches) are beating New York City, Sioux Falls, Des Moines, Albuquerque, Reno, and even Anchorage, Alaska ...
Drivers in parts of the U.S. were urged not to travel unless absolutely necessary on Monday as a vast storm system is expected to bring “ferocious blizzard conditions,” potential tornadoes and ...
The January 5–6, 2025 United States blizzard was a significant and expansive winter weather event that produced blizzard conditions across the High Plains, [2] as well as a long swath of accumulating snow and ice storm to the eastern half of the United States in early January 2025.
Winter weather advisories, winter storm watches, winter storm warnings and even blizzard warnings were in effect for a large portion of the north-central U.S. as of early Friday morning.
Across 27 states within the continental United States, approximately 60 million people across a 2,100 mi (3,400 km)-long path were put under various advisories, watches and warnings, including blizzard warnings, ice storm warnings and winter storm watches and warnings. [39]
On November 7 and 8, the NWS issued hurricane wind warnings, flood warnings and blizzard warnings for most of Western Alaska. The storm came after almost 7,000 people in the Kenai Peninsula lost power in a previous storm the week before. [9] An Alaskan village called Kivalina built a wall to protect waves from flooding the village.
The warnings include the Kansas City, Wichita and Topeka metro areas, where the combination of heavy snowfall, strong winds and low visibility might reach blizzard criteria at times into early Monday.
[9] [10] A powerful extratropical cyclone in the Bering Sea late in the month reached winds of over 100 mph (160 km/h) and a minimum central pressure of 921 mb (27.2 inHg) west of Alaska. It later moved on to hit Alaska , after only slightly weakening, causing high surf and gusty winds in the Aleutian Islands .