Arctic air masses from the Northern Pole rolled out towards Canada and the United States the last few days bringing temperatures below zero, frosty conditions and snow in sea level until the coasts. Snow covered much of the USA; New York city along with the southern states like Texas, Louisiana and northern Florida. This was an exceptional event as snow fell over the subtropical latitudes in coastal parts of the Gulf of Mexico.
Snow records across the USA: The snow first fell in the northern and central states of the USA, then on Tuesday arrived in Texas, bringing snow in Houston with a layer of 7 cm, the 4th event recorded of all time. Then the snow storm moved towards the east across Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Georgia, bringing snow on the coast and over the sea. Louisiana experienced its first blizzard warning, while in New Orleans International Airport the height of the snow reached 20 cm which exceeded the last record set more than 60 years ago by 3 times! Parts of Alabama and Mississippi had a record of almost 30 cm locally. Another record was broken in Florida in the Pensacola area where 12 cm were measured exceeding the last 130-year-old record and in Milton the snow reached at 22 cm. Houston, 7.6cm (Texas,) is the 4th event all time.
This severe weather was accompanied by severe low temperatures reaching even -5°C to -7°C across the southern states, -10°C to -20°C across the central and -20°C to -40°C across the northern. Parts of Canada also had some extreme cold warnings in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec with temperatures even reaching -50°C locally.
Unfortunately, the current event caused 4 people to lose their lives. Furthermore, highways were closed, more than 2.200 flights were cancelled while 3.000 were delayed. More than 130.000 homes and businesses were without power today in much of Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia and Florida.
Tonight the storm is moving northeastwards across the Atlantic Ocean.
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