This may be one of the most treacherous holiday travel seasons the U.S. has seen in decades, with temperatures plummeting 50ºF in some areas and forecasters warning of an impending 'bomb cyclone.'
The frigid air was moving through the central United States to the east, with windchill advisories affecting about 135 million people over the coming days, National Weather Service meteorologist Ashton Robinson Cook said Thursday. Places like Des Moines, Iowa, will feel like minus 37 degrees, making it possible to suffer frostbite in less than five minutes.
A resident shovels snow off the end of a driveway on Dec. 22, 2022, in Urbandale, Iowa. Temperatures plunged far and fast Thursday as a winter storm formed ahead of Christmas weekend, promising heavy snow, ice, flooding and powerful winds across a broad swath of the country and complicating holiday travel.
Whiteout conditions wreaked havoc from Colorado, east to Wyoming, and north to Minnesota. Wyoming Highway Patrol handled 787 calls for help and 104 crashes in just a 12-hour period. High winds whip around 7.5 inches of new snow at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport as workers prepare a Sun Country Airlines plane for takeoff on Dec. 22, 2022. a man authorities believe was homeless died after being found outside in the bitter cold in Fort WorthIn Kansas City, Missouri, one person died when a van drove over an embankment into an icy creek and overturned,Three deaths were attributed to the storm in Kansas and one in Nebraska. All involved traffic accidents.
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