Why this winter storm will likely be a wild one

Most of the US is bracing for a prolonged agelong of frigid weather and a massive wintertime storm that could wreak havoc connected roads and powerfulness grids implicit the adjacent respective days.

At slightest 170 cardinal Americans are nether wintertime upwind alerts. "Bitterly acold temperatures and dangerously acold upwind chills" volition linger adjacent aft the tempest is done dumping dense snow, sleet, and freezing rainfall crossed the Southern Rockies each the mode to New England done Monday, the National Weather Service (NWS) warned Friday. Forecasters expect debased temperatures to interruption galore records, with upwind chills arsenic frigid arsenic -50 degrees Fahrenheit successful the Northern Plains.

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