Houses with snow on their roofs in Seattle (Daniel Kim/The Seattle Times via AP) (Daniel Kim/)Almost 7,000 flights were canceled (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP) (CHANDAN KHANNA/)A rural area in Linn County, Iowa (Nick Rohlman/The Gazette via AP) (NICK ROHLMAN/)One person helps another in Seattle (Daniel Kim/The Seattle Times via AP) (Daniel Kim/)More than a million people have lost electricity in several states of the United States (Derek Gee / The Buffalo News via AP) (Derek Gee /)
A large number of states in the United States register temperatures below zero As a major freezing storm, known as cyclonic pumpleaves millions of homes without electricity and thousands of travelers stranded at the doors of the Christmas holidays.
The phenomenon, caused by an arctic air front, will be responsible for the country living its Coldest Christmas since the 80’s.
Most of the blackouts have been concentrated in the Northeast region of the United States, which includes states such as New York, Maine, New Hampshire or Connecticut (LEANDRO LOZADA / AFP) (LEANDRO LOZADA /)Specifically, 534,000 people have suffered power outages in the New England region, which includes states such as Maine (250,000), New Hampshire (100,000), Massachusetts (68,000) or Connecticut (50,000). (Matthew Hatcher / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP) (MATTHEW HATCHER /)Cars driving in the snow in Iowa (Joesph Cress/Iowa City Press-Citizen via AP) (Joseph Cress/)Francisco Erazo tries to remove accumulated snow (Neil Blake / The Grand Rapids Press via AP) (Neil Blake | MLive.com /)
About 10 people, so far, have died on the roads since the storm began in the states of Kansas, Oklahoma, Kentucky and Ohio.
The roads of St. Louis (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) (Jeff Roberson/)In New York, 90,000 have suffered a blackout, in Pennsylvania the figure is 80,000, while in Virginia or Maryland there are more than 60,000 customers without electricity (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian via AP) (Amanda Cowan/)Animals in the snow in Utah (GEORGE FREY / AFP) (GEORGE FREY /)A Nashville resident looks around (Seth Herald / AFP) (SETH HERALD /)
In other places, like Chicago, Illinois, or Nashville, Tennessee, roads were clogged for hours as temperatures dropped, rain turned to ice and the wind blew into blizzards.
A person runs in the snow in Chicago (SCOTT OLSON / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP) (SCOTT OLSON /)A Santa Claus in the snow in Iowa (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) (Charlie Neibergall/)A sheltered person in Chicago (SCOTT OLSON / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP) (SCOTT OLSON /)Antonio Smothers tries to start his vehicle in Nashville (Seth Herald / AFP) (SETH HERALD /)Two people shopping in Vancouver (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian via AP) (Amanda Cowan/)
In Denver (Colorado) Thursday was the second coldest day since records were kept: the average temperature was 26 degrees below zero.
The National Weather Service of the United States (NWS, for its acronym in English) reported a major winter storm in progress that will bring heavy snowfall and winds to the country (SCOTT OLSON / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP) (SCOTT OLSON /)A vehicle after crashing in Seattle (Kevin Clark/The Seattle Times via AP) (Kevin Clark/)A large number of states in the United States registered temperatures below freezing this Friday (SCOTT OLSON / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP) (SCOTT OLSON /)The phenomenon, caused by an arctic air front, will be responsible for the country experiencing its coldest Christmas since the 1980s (Jon Cherry / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP) (JON CHERRY /)
Transport problems also affected trains and bus companies like Greyhound, the largest of them, which has already warned that many routes in the Northeast or Midwest may be canceled or altered.
Some 10 people, so far, have died on the roads since the storm began in the states of Kansas, Oklahoma, Kentucky and Ohio (SCOTT OLSON / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP) (SCOTT OLSON /)In Chicago, Illinois, or Nashville, Tennessee, roads were clogged for hours as temperatures dropped, rain turned to ice, and wind blew into blizzards (Ellen M. Banner /The Seattle Times via AP) (Ellen M .banner/)A worker for assembling a vehicle on a crane (Jon Cherry / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP) (JON CHERRY /)People watch television (Jon Cherry / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP) (JON CHERRY /)Street cleaning on Rock Island (Nikos Frazier/Quad City Times via AP) (Nikos Frazier/)
More than 1.4 million homes or offices were without electricityaccording to web records poweroutage.uswhile almost 7,000 flights had been cancelled.
Transportation problems also affected trains and bus companies such as Greyhound, the largest of them (LEANDRO LOZADA / AFP) (LEANDRO LOZADA /)People under the snow in Detroit (Matthew Hatcher / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP) (MATTHEW HATCHER /)A person walks in the streets of Detroit (Matthew Hatcher / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP) (MATTHEW HATCHER /)Firefighters in Detroit (Matthew Hatcher / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP) (MATTHEW HATCHER /)
Strong winter storms will affect approximately 200 million people, 60% of the country’s populationaccording to projections of the national meteorological service, the National Weather Service (NWS).
People at the Denver airport (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) (David Zalubowski/)The airlines canceled almost 7,000 flights (KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI / AFP) (KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI /)The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) imposed ground stops or delays due to deicing at several US airports due to weather (KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI / AFP) (KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI /)According to the FAA, “bad winter weather moving northeast across the Great Lakes will have a major impact” on flights (Seth Herald / AFP) (SETH HERALD /)
The President of the USA, Joe Bidenappeared publicly to warn Americans to take the storm “extremely seriously” and to follow the recommendations of the authorities.
Photos from AP, AFP and REUTERS
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