Winter storm to bring snow, winds, ice and life-threatening chill
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overnors from New York to Louisiana have declared states of emergency ahead of predicted snow and subzero temperatures.
Brutally cold weather could prove a deadly challenge Saturday amid a continuing wave of Arctic storms that have hammered much of the country with blinding snow, freezing rain and whipping winds.
Governors from New York to Louisiana declared states of emergency ahead of predicted snow and bone-chilling temperatures. In St. Louis, the National Weather Service warned of rare and "life-threatening" cold. Sub-zero low-temperature records could fall Saturday and Sunday in the northern and central Plains amid heavy snow, strong winds and blizzards.
"Including wind chill, temperatures will fall below minus 30 over a large area running from the northern Rockies to northern Kansas, with minus 50 possible across the Dakotas," the NWS said in a statement Saturday.
About 185,000 customers were without power in Michigan on Saturday, and 91,000 customers in Wisconsin lost utility service, according to poweroutage.us. Outages were also reported from Virginia to New Hampshire.
The fierce weather blitzed campaign schedules in Iowa, the leadoff GOP caucus state. With a blizzard warning covering most of the state, Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump all shuffled their schedules ahead of Monday's presidential vote.
