Record low temperatures were recorded almost everywhere, resulting in the deaths of about twenty people. Thousands of flights have been canceled and postponed.
By Frederic Delepierre
IThere was no Christmas miracle. Heralded as devastating, Storm Elliott was all weekend. According to a report released Sunday morning, the extreme temperatures raging in the United States, the snowfall and the blizzard have killed at least 23 people. More than 500,000 homes were still without electricity but, at the height of the bad weather, the figure reached 1.5 million households. As a reminder, described by some meteorologists as a cyclonic bomb or explosive cyclogenesis, the phenomenon is caused by the movement of cold air from the Arctic towards the Atlantic Ocean, whose air is much warmer, which causes a drop in atmospheric pressure. If it is regular enough, the phenomenon is, this time, exceptional in its intensity. With temperatures reaching -50º, cold records were broken in the United States but also in Canada.
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