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Rare snowstorm hits southern US, 4 deaths reported

2025-01-22 07:48:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

Rare snowstorm hits southern US, 4 deaths reported

A rare winter storm is bringing snow and rain to parts of the southern US, closing highways and airports in Texas and triggering a first-ever tornado warning in southwest Louisiana.

Four people are thought to have died from exposure to the cold so far - two cases are being investigated as cold-related by authorities in Austin, Texas, while two deaths from hypothermia were reported in Georgia and Milwaukee.

In the north of the country, parts of New York state are being hit by another storm.

More than 2,200 flights within the U.S. were canceled Tuesday and another 3,000 were delayed, according to online tracker Flight Aware.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced Monday that she had declared a state of emergency in several counties in western New York as communities grapple with snow and extreme cold.

Buffalo Mayor Christopher Scanlon declared an additional emergency himself, closing City Hall and closing Route 5, the Buffalo Skyway due to blowing snow and other hazardous driving conditions.

Parts of Canada have also been hit by particularly cold winter weather, with extreme cold warnings in place across the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. With wind chills, temperatures are expected to drop to -50C (-58F) in some areas.

In the southern U.S., the highest snowfall recorded Tuesday afternoon local time was 10.5 inches in Rayne, Louisiana, according to reports from the NWS.

Temperatures are expected to fall well below January averages and could exceed record lows stretching from the coast to the Tennessee Valley.

The governors of several states, including Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, have also declared states of emergency in response to the unusual cold.

The storm now hitting the southern US began in Texas on Monday evening and was forecast to spread eastward by Wednesday morning along Interstate 10, a major highway in the region.

By Tuesday afternoon, the storm had moved into Georgia, the Florida panhandle, and North and South Carolina.

State leaders and agencies struggled to cope with the atypical weather./ CNA





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