2 minute read
At least 13 people have died and nearly a million people were without power late Sunday, Jan. 25, as a fierce winter storm continues its damaging trek across the United States, with ice, sleet and freezing rain overloading electrical lines and trees, USA TODAY reports.
Flight cancellations hit the highest point since the pandemic, and numerous closings have been announced through at least Monday in federal, state and local offices and schools, according to USA TODAY.
With power outages across the eastern United States, meteorologists and emergency management officials are growing increasingly concerned about the extreme cold moving in behind the storm by Monday.
"The dangers aren't over even with the precipitation ending," Brian Hurley, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center, told USA TODAY. "A lot of the areas that are still getting the heavy ice, freezing rain, sleet and snow, will stay below freezing through the work week. The massive storm expanded into the Mid-Atlantic overnight Sunday and moved into the Northeast on Sunday.
Electricity outages across the U.S. reached nearly a million early Sunday afternoon, with 9.2% of Tennessee customers out of power and 8% of the customers in Mississippi, according to USA TODAY’s outage tracker. By 10:30 p.m. Sunday, utility crews had reduced the number of outages to fewer than 805,000.
The lowest temperature in the US on Jan. 25 at two locations in Minnesota was minus 40.