Weather chaos continues in the United States after the historic winter storm

Weather chaos continued Tuesday in the United States after historic Winter Storm Elliott left it in its wake More than 60 dead During the holidays, half of them are in upstate New York.

The east and south of the country witnessed a rise in temperatures on Tuesday as the storm subsided Another cold front has reached the West Coast with snow and rainThe National Weather Service (NWS) reported.

NWS forecast for this Tuesday The lowest level of minus 17 degrees Celsius In the far northeast of the country, it is -8 degrees Celsius in the Great Lakes and -5 degrees Celsius in some areas of the east coast.

Despite Elliott’s end, weather chaos continues in the United States just days before another holiday, New Year’s. This Tuesday they were More than 3,000 flights have been cancelledaccording to the Flight Aware portal, thousands of passengers left on the ground who planned to travel during the holidays.

Hardest hit are users of Southwest Airlines, which is responsible for 63% of cancellations and its phone service lines are saturated.

Lynn Montgomery, president of the Southwest Flight Attendants Association, told the network CNN what Not “enough staff to change the schedule”which leads to a “domino effect that generates chaos across the country”.

Bob Jordan, CEO of this Dallas, Texas-based company, told the paper The Wall Street Journal They expect more cancellations and delays in the coming days.

Air chaos in the United States It started last Thursday with the arrival of the stormwhich caused 20% of operations to be canceled on Christmas Eve that day, when thousands of people sought to reunite with their families.

The storm’s arrival was almost unprecedented, with frigid temperatures stretching from the Great Lakes near Canada to the Rio Grande (also called the Rio Grande) along the Mexican border.

More than 200 million Americans, about 60% of the population, have experienced some type of winter weather warning.

Hurricane-force winds and heavy snowfall from Elliott affected the power grid in several states, knocking out power to nearly 1.7 million homes and businesses at the height of the storm, though nearly all power has now been restored.

But, About 200,000 users were left without power on Tuesday in Oregon, Washington, and California with a new front affecting the West Coast.

According to local media, the storm left more than 50 dead as a result of cold and accidents, a large number of them in the Buffalo area, northwest of New York State, where the President of the United States, Joe Biden, announced the emergency situation.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Tuesday that several highways in the hardest-hit area have reopened, as well as border crossings with Canada.

Work continues to reopen the remaining roads in Erie County, which is where Buffalo is located, which has recorded 28 of the 50 deaths nationwide. the Bodies were found in cars, houses and streets.

It’s been decades since this city, which borders Canada and is used to being cold, hasn’t experienced such a harsh winter. Buffalo has completely snowballed, and its airport, which provides coverage for the famous Niagara Falls, remains closed.

That doesn’t mean “we can lower our guard,” the governor said, before warning that “with major highways reopening in western New York today, we’re leaving the storm behind.”

For his part, Marc Poloncars, Erie’s chief political officer, said many people who sought shelter in shelters have already gone home and also confirmed that there is no shortage of products in the stores.

Last night, Biden ordered the federal administration to coordinate the necessary measures for this “Ease the hardships and suffering” caused by the storm in New York.

The president appeared last week to warn Americans not to take the storm “very seriously” and follow the authorities’ recommendations.

These holidays were the coldest in the past 40 years in the eastern half of the country, including Floridaknown as the “sunshine state”.

New York City experienced a minimum temperature of minus 10.5 degrees Celsius on Christmas Day, something not seen since 1872. The US capital, Washington, was minus 10 degrees Celsius, the coldest Christmas since 1983, and thermometers in Tampa, Florida, fell below zero, something that had not happened since 1966.

With information from EFE

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