WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) – The United States’ National Weather Service (NWS) said a winter storm. “Record-breaking times” spanning more than 3,200 kilometers in 25 US states, more than 150 million people were under winter storm warnings or winter weather advisories as of Monday morning (Feb. 15). .)
The agency said that a long winter storm. With heavy snow and cold weather Causing many areas in the US Faced with energy shortages and travel obstacles From southern Texas to northern Maine.
Power Outage Dock (poweroutage.us) Electricity situation monitoring website It said Texas had more than 2.7 million people without electricity as of 10:00 a.m. on Monday (Feb. 15) local time.
Snow covered more than 70 percent of the country as of Monday morning.
USA Today reports that more than 50 million people will experience temperatures below 0 degrees Celsius over the next several days. The winter storm is expected to break hundreds of days of the lowest daily temperature record.
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