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In northern areas of the United States, where municipalities are well equipped to handle heavy snowfall, snow days occur when extreme winter weather events overwhelm typical efforts to safely clear main roads of snow and ice (1 to 2 feet of snow). Weather induced cancellations or delays can also happen in more temperate southern regions, which ...
Drivers in several areas are being asked to stay home due to road conditions in Indiana, including in the Bloomington area where a photo posted by state police showed an empty, snow-covered ...
A storm emerging from the Rockies is forecast to bring ice, snow and rain to a large portion of the country beginning this weekend, possibly affecting millions of Americans. According to ...
Two days after the storm barreled through Dallas, large branches and whole trees can still be seen where they fell, hundreds of traffic signals remain out, and the work to restore power to ...
Visibility in Kansas due to the blizzard dropped as low as 15 feet (4.6 m). [4] Portions of I-80 in Nebraska also closed due to the snowfall. [11] Blizzard conditions also occurred in the Texas Panhandle, where 4 in (10 cm) of snow fell in Dalhart and winds gusted up to 70 mph (110 km/h). [12]
The crisis drew much attention to the state's lack of preparedness for such storms, [19] and to a report from U.S. federal regulators ten years earlier that had warned Texas that its power plants would fail in sufficiently cold conditions. [20] [21] Damages due to the cold wave and winter storm were estimated to be at least $195 billion, [5 ...
Failure to clear all the snow and ice from a vehicle causes hazards by impairing the driver's visibility, and ice from the roofs of driven vehicles can cause crashes. [11] In some jurisdictions, motorists who fail to clear snow from their vehicle entirely may be fined. [12] Others may be more thorough in this process.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - This winter is forecast to bring sudden bouts of extreme cold to Texas that could test the state's electric grid in early 2025, the grid operator's chief meteorologist said on ...