It was expected that the snow, the country and the frozen rains would continue to dissolve the central Alash and the states in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday, while California prepared for a storm that could be overwhelmed by its last destroyed areas. forest fires.
Heavy snow – up to about 14 inches (25 centimeters) – was expected to fall in parts of Virginia and West Virginia, according to national weather service. The accumulation of ice can reach more than a third of an inch (8.4 mm) in Stanley Town, Virginia, and a quarter of an inch (6.3 millimeters) in Glenel Springs, North Carolina.
In California, and The atmosphere – A long set of water vapor was expected to move that could move moisture from tropical areas to more northern regions – late on Wednesday, and urban areas in central and southern California will be overwhelmed, according to weather service.
The snowstorm that exploded in the Atlantic states on Tuesday caused accidents on ice roads and pushed schools closing. By Tuesday night, approximately 12,000 people in Virginia were power, according to Poweroutage.us.
“Stay at home and outside the road tonight, Virginia,” the Ministry of Transport in Virginia posted on social media on Tuesday night, along with Mimi from Dorothy from “The Wizard of Oz”, saying: “There is no place like the house.”
In parts of Baltimore and Washington, it was inch (2.5 centimeters) of snow fell every hour, according to the weather service. All Washington public schools were closed on Wednesday due to the weather.
5400 workers are devoted to the restoration of power.
Guard officials said about 65 soldiers in Virginia National were in facilities along the 95th Highway and the state road 29 in southwest Virginia to support the storm’s response. 20 other soldiers and members of the Virginia Defense Force were in support roles.
Winter storm warnings from northwest of North Carolina stretch to the south of New Jersey, and the snow and ice mix was expected to become rainy on Wednesday afternoon with high temperatures.
The weather service said that in the meantime, the system of separate ice storms was expected to spoil the area of Kansas extending to the Great Lakes that start on Tuesday night. The legislative body in Kansas was canceled on Wednesday’s meetings due to the weather, and the state governor, Laura Kelly, closed the state offices in the capital, Tobika.
In Virginia, where the governor of the state Glenn Youngin announced the state of emergency and closed schools and government offices on Tuesday, the state police reported 700 accidents and dozens of injuries on Tuesday. Although Matt Dimlin, Virginia State Police spokesman, said they could not say categorically that all of them were linked to the weather.
In the south of West Virginia, multiple incidents temporarily closed several rapid roads on Tuesday. The sender Kelly Picks said that the Smith of the country and the repair of the trucks responded to at least 15 calls, most of whom are cut off tractors who stumbled on the 64th Highway in Greenber Province near the borders of Virginia.
She said: “Basically, they are absorbed into the mediator or get out of the highway a little on the right side.” “They do not have enough power in their cars to return to the road due to the ice conditions.”
Big Williams, who owns the city center books in Lexington, Virginia, closed her store on Tuesday because of the weather. She expressed a contemplation of reopening on Wednesday, noting that Lexington and the surrounding Rocbridge Province are reliable when it comes to removing roads.
But with temperatures on both sides of freezing on Tuesday and Wednesday night, the rain that is supposed to follow may make the roads better or worse.
“It will only depend on the place where the temperatures are going,” said Williams. “The rain can remove things. The rain can also freeze. Then you have a lot of ski circuits instead of ways.”
The air mass in the Arctic of Portland, Oregon, extends to the Great Lakes.
Brighton Ericsson, CEO of the Bouta mission, said the temperature that has passed on Tuesday morning at a minus 31 degrees (minus 35 degrees Celsius) in Bouta, where at least five people died of cold exposure.
The displaced defenders in the city were about 35,000 in the streets who distribute sleeping bags, jackets, strikes and other cold weather equipment for anyone he needed, according to Ericsson.
Ericsson said: “When this cold becomes, we withdraw all the stations,” Ericsson said.
In Multnomah Province in Oregon, officials extended the state of emergency until at least Thursday. Five emergency shelters were opened on Tuesday night until Wednesday afternoon. midweek Readings of cold wind The weather service said it could decrease to 10 degrees (minus 12 ° C) in Portland.
The atmosphere was expected to arrive in California from late Wednesday until peak on Thursday, according to Miles Place, a meteorologist at the national weather service. Along with the floods, heavy snow was expected to fall in Sierra Nevada.
More than 700,000 sandbags are arranged in central and southern California, according to the Ministry of Water Resources in California.
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Journalists at Associated Press from all over the United States contributed to this report.