“Freezing to bare skin in just 5-10 minutes”
Plunging temperatures are wreaking havoc in the US and Canada, and their rapid drop can lead to frostbite on bare skin in just 5-10 minutes. A powerful Arctic winter storm has put more than 135 million people on weather warnings over the weekend before the busiest Christmas holidays of the year.
The alert extends from coast to coast and reaches as far south as the US-Mexico border and Florida. Major airports have canceled thousands of flights as the storm intensifies. The cold snap could bring the coldest Christmas in decades, forecasters say.
The National Weather Service (NWS) said weekend temperatures as low as -45 degrees Celsius are possible in some parts of the country.
In the USA they have already baptized it “Snow apocalypse”, snow apocalypse, or snow “Armageddon” and the governors of 7 states have proclaimed a state of emergency, a mix of snow storms combined with the polar vortex, will bring – expected – record temperatures, down to minus 57 degrees in Wyoming: brutal snowfalls also in Northern New York, so much so that around 2,000 domestic and international flights have been suspended or canceled for what American meteorologists have defined as a “one-of-a-generation stormThe state of New York has declared a state of emergency.
