‘Bomb cyclone’ is expected to be the region’s most intense winter hurricane in decades, sparking a flurry of wind chill advisories and freeze warnings from Florida through to Maine. Freezing temperatures have already claimed a dozen lives in the past week across the East Coast. In fact, it’s freezing all across the US, with at least one place in every state hitting below freezing Wednesday – and it’s expected to do the same again Thursday. Airlines have canceled over 2,700 flights and extremely hazardous driving conditions are expected throughout the Eastern seaboard late Wednesday and into Thursday. Most of the flight cancellations were for flights scheduled to depart or arrive at some of the large Northeast airports, including Logan, JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark International Airport. Jacksonville International Airport has delays while Charleston International Airport in South Carolina, Boston Airport, Massachusetts and Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport, Georgia, are closed completely.
Victims of the cold include a homeless man dead inside a trash bin in St Louis on Monday evening and a 27-year-old woman dead from exposure on Monday on the shore of Lake Winnebago, Wisconsin. Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal declared a state of emergency through Friday for 28 counties because of the cold.
Savannah will see its first snowfall since February 2010, when its covered with two inches this evening. Snow has also begun falling in Tallahassee, Florida, where 3 to 5 inches is expected while Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon, Universal Orlando’s Volcano Bay and SeaWorld’s Aquatica were closed Wednesday. The bomb is expected to bring blizzard-like conditions to Boston, Long Island and Maine and eight inches of snow to New York City where wind chill temperatures plunge to minus 20 on Friday
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