Winter storm hammers eastern US; over 60 million face blizzard conditions
Al Jazeera
At least 62 million people are in the path of the storm as state of emergency declared in several US states.
A severe winter storm has hammered the United States, with meteorologists warning more than 60 million people in the country’s east faced blizzard conditions and some areas would see the heaviest snowfall in a decade.
The National Weather Service (NWS) on Sunday warned of ice, snow and gale-force winds in states from the central plains to the mid-Atlantic.
A state of emergency has been declared in Kentucky, Missouri and Virginia.
More than 60 million people are in the path of the dangerous storm, set to plunge the eastern half of the US into a deep freeze of Arctic air through Monday, resulting in severe travel disruptions.
Winter storm warnings have been issued from western Kansas to the coastal states of Maryland, Delaware and Virginia, an unusually broad 2,400km (1,500-mile) swath under immediate threat.
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