Forecasters say a second storm is expected to bring snow to New York after wreaking havoc further south, while the Pacific Northwest could see another round of deadly ice.
Friday’s forecast comes as storms in the past two weeks have blasted much of the country with wind, snow and freezing temperatures blamed for at least 45 deaths.
More than 2 inches of snow is forecast for the New York City metropolitan area through Friday while, on the other coast, Oregon’s governor declared a statewide state of emergency after days of freezing rain and cold temperatures.
On Wednesday, three people died when power lines fell in Portland.
New York City — which just Tuesday saw its first significant snowfall in more than two years — is in the spotlight as the National Weather Service warns of less than 2 inches (5 centimeters) of snow through Friday in the metropolitan area, with New Jersey and Pennsylvania also gets snow.
On Thursday, an American Airlines plane skidded off a snowy taxiway in Rochester, New York, after a flight from Philadelphia.
No injuries were reported.
Forecasters say a second storm is expected to bring snow to New York, while the Pacific Northwest could see another round of deadly ice. Getty Images More than 2 inches of snow is forecast for the New York City metropolitan area through Friday. Getty Images On Thursday, an American Airlines plane skidded off a snowy taxiway in Rochester, New York. AP
On the West Coast, Oregon’s governor declared a statewide emergency on Thursday night after requests for help from several counties “as they enter their sixth day of severe effects” from weather marked by freezing rain.
Thousands of residents have been without power since Saturday in parts of Oregon’s Willamette Valley after an ice storm caused extensive damage.
“We lost power on Saturday, and we were told yesterday that it will be over two weeks before it comes back on,” said Jamie Kenworthy, a real estate broker in Jasper in Lane County.
In the past two weeks, the storm has blasted much of the US with rain, snow, wind, and freezing temperatures, snarling traffic and air travel, and causing at least 45 deaths.
That includes three people who were electrocuted Wednesday by downed power lines in Portland, Oregon.
A man who tried to get out of a parked car covered in dead lines with a baby in his arms after slipping on an icy driveway and hitting live wires.
The baby survived.
His 21-year-old pregnant girlfriend and his 15-year-old brother died as they tried to help.
Their father, Ronald Briggs, told KGW-TV that he was helplessly watching their deaths.
“I have six children. I lost two of them in one day,” he said.
Crews have made steady progress restoring power to tens of thousands of customers in Oregon after a string of storms, but by Friday morning more than 107,000 were without power, according to poweroutage.us.
Portland Public Schools canceled classes for a fourth straight day amid concerns about icy roads and water damage to buildings, and state offices in Portland were also ordered to close Friday.
Oregon’s governor declared a statewide emergency after days of freezing rain and cold temperatures. AP Three people were electrocuted Wednesday by downed power lines in Portland, Oregon. AP
In Washington, DC, the snow is falling gently and the streets around the US Capitol are quiet.
Schools closed again for the second time in a week and the government was suspended for two hours.
President Joe Biden still plans to host mayors from around the country on Friday, though, and is still headed to his Delaware beach home for the weekend.
The weather service expects 4 to 6 inches (10 to 15 centimeters) in the region.
Schools were also closed due to Friday’s weather in many counties in Maryland, northern Virginia, and West Virginia, where the governor declared a state of emergency on Thursday.
Bitter weather continued in the South, where a new layer of ice formed in parts of Tennessee on Thursday — part of a broader cold snap sweeping the country.
Authorities blamed at least 14 deaths in Tennessee on the system, which dumped more than 9 inches (22.8 centimeters) of snow since Sunday on parts of Nashville, a city that rarely sees such accumulations.
Temperatures also plunged below zero (minus 17.7 Celsius) in parts of the state, creating the largest power demand ever in the seven states served by the Tennessee Valley Authority.
The fatalities included a box truck driver who crashed into a tractor trailer on the interstate, a man who fell through a skylight while cleaning a roof, and a woman who died of hypothermia after being found unresponsive in her home.
Icy roads in Tennessee made travel dangerous Thursday night.
In Anderson County outside Knoxville, the sheriff’s department said in a social media post that emergency workers were having difficulty responding to numerous crashes amid the worst road conditions in years because their vehicles were stuck and inoperable.
The US Supreme Court building in Washington, DC seen from the snow covered US Capitol grounds on January 17, 2024. Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto/Shutterstock
On Thursday, Will Compton of Nashville nonprofit Open Table, which helps the homeless, stopped his SUV outside the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum to hand out warm hats, blankets, protein drinks and socks as the icy rain fell.
“The poor and the homeless are the hardest hit,” Compton said.
Aaron Robison, 62, has lived in one of the city’s warming centers and said the cold wouldn’t have bothered him when he was younger.
But now with arthritis in her hip and having to rely on two crutches, she needs to get out of the cold.
Schools closed again for the second time in a week in Washington, DC, and the government was suspended for two hours. AMANDA ANDRADE-RHOADES
“Thank God that people help people on the streets. That’s a blessing,” he said.
Since extreme cold weather set in last week, more than 60 oil spills and other environmental incidents have been reported in the Bakken oil field in North Dakota, where regulators say wind chills as low as minus 70 degrees (minus 56.6 C) have caused workers and equipment to freeze. tense, making accidents more likely.
In Washington state, five people – most of them considered homeless – died of exposure to the cold in just four days last week in Seattle as temperatures plunged below freezing, the medical examiner’s office said.
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