Winter storm hammers US; over 60mn face blizzard conditions

Kentucky [US], January 6: 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 swath under immediate threat. "Disruptive winter storm to impact the Central Plains to the Mid-Atlantic through Monday with widespread heavy snow and damaging ice accumulations," the NWS said in its latest report.
Source: Qatar Tribune