A winter disaster was in the states of the Middle Atlantic on Tuesday with forecasts of important snow and ice accumulations that caused warnings of possible power cuts.
The trips will become a betrayal of Tuesday until the early hours of Wednesday in much of Virginia and Virginia Occidental, said the National Meteorological Service.
Virginia’s republican governor, Glenn Youngkin, declared an emergency state before the storm, allowing state agencies to help local governments. Government schools and offices throughout Virginia closed on Tuesday.
The heaviest snow, up to 10 inches (25.4 centimeters), was forecast in northern and center of Virginia and eastern Western Virginia. Ice accumulations could vary from a glaze in Kentucky and Virginia Occidental to half inch (1.3 centimeters) in the Roanoke Valley of the Southwest of Virginia, said the weather service. Energy cuts and trees damage were probably in places with heavy ice accumulations.
“Did you think winter was over? Think about it again! “The Meteorological Service Office in Blacksburg, Virginia, said In a publication On the social media platform X.
The power of the Apalaches, which serves 1 million customers in West Virginia, Virginia and Tennessee, said he has requested 700 additional workers to neighboring public services to help with the problems Tuesday morning.
In East of Tennessee, the forecast warned that the flood threat will increase throughout the week, with up to 8 inches (20 centimeters) of rainy rain for Sunday. The US Army Engineers. UU. He said he was taking measures to capture runoff and mitigate the risk of flooding, including the reduction of some lake levels and empty storage deposits.
In northern Virginia, the National Parks Service closed a part of George Washington Memorial Parkway, a narrow road that makes its way through the forest along the Potomac River. Parkway connects multiple small national parks sites and has historically been a problematic place during winter storms for abandoned cars that created a Slalom course for quittings and other vehicles.
The winter storm warnings extended from Kentucky to the south of New Jersey, and an flood clock was published for a wide strip of Kentucky, Tennessee, the southwest of Virginia and the north of Georgia. The snow and ice mixture was expected to rain as temperatures rise on Wednesday afternoon.
A separate storm system is ready to bring strong snowfalls from Kansas and Missouri to the great lakes on Wednesday, the weather service said.
The dangerous cold was forecast on Tuesday from an Arctic air mass that extends from Portland, Oregon, to the great lakes.
In Detroit, two children under 10 were probably died from exposure to cold after they were discovered with other family members on Monday in a van in a casino parking lot, police said. His family may have been living in the truck, police said.
“This was unnecessary. It didn’t have to happen in this way, ”said police captain Nathan doubts WJBK-TV.
Officials in the Multnomah County of Oregon, who already confirmed a death of hypothermia earlier this month, said that three severe climatic shelters with more than 230 beds will open in the Portland area on Monday night, when a effect will take effect a state of emergency. The Regional Office of Services for homeless was also ready to improve its dissemination program to distribute warm clothes, blankets and heaters from hands to an estimated of almost 4,000 people who live outside in the metropolitan area.
The low morning temperatures could fall below 20 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 6.7 Celsius) until Wednesday, and racing winds could make temperatures feel less than 10 degrees (minus 17 Celsius), said the meteorological service office In Portland in X. Freezing can reach the area from Wednesday night until Thursday night, with another system that possibly provides more precipitation over the weekend.
The severe winter climate has Portland paralyzed in the past. The city, which is more accustomed to raining, only partially treats its street grid in case of snow and ice and does not burn the side streets. Such climate in the region can also be deadly. Last year, snow, ice rain, ice and cold temperatures were attributed by At least 10 deaths in Oregon of hypothermia and trees that fall or posts of public services.
The temperature was expected to play on Tuesday morning at less than 33 degrees (less 36 degrees Celsius) in Butte, Montana, where at least five people died in the last two winters died due to the exposure to the cold, said Brayton Erickson, executive director, executive director From Butte rescue mission. The defenders of homeless people in the city of approximately 35,000 planned to be in the streets distributing sleeping bags, jackets, gloves and other cold weather equipment to anyone who needs them, Erickson said.
“When it is so cold, we make all the stops,” he said. “Having all those resources available can literally save your life or keep them from Frostbite.”
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Associated Press writers from all over the United States contributed to this report.
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