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Lthe cities of New York and Boston lived again, in an unusual way, a second winter hurricane, the phenomenon called bomb cyclone, characterized by the explosive power of rapid drops in atmospheric pressure.
The bomb cyclone lashed with strong winds and heavy snow northeastern united states. Cities like New York and Boston were the most affected. The National Metereological Service issued warnings of its severity. The flights were canceled because the winds could reach between 80 and 120 km/h which generates “almost impossible travel conditions”
The inhabitants of New York under the strong winter storm caused by the bomb cyclone, the polar cold wave that already left 12 dead. The temperature reached 37 degrees below zero in the northeast of the country.
The snowstorm spread this Saturday over the northeast of U.S with heavy snowfalls and winds that paralyze the daily life of some 70 million inhabitants.
Cities like New York and Boston were the most affected by the storm, that the Meteorologic service National (NWS) confirmed that it escalated to a bomb cyclone with rapid sharp drops in atmospheric pressure
The NWS warned that winds could reach between 80 and 120 km/h and of “almost impossible travel conditions” in the northeastern United States.
The most affected areas of New York and Massachusetts received 61 centimeters of snow in the early afternoon, and more than 95,000 homes were left without electricity in Massachusetts. New York Mayor Eric AdamsHe urged citizens to stay home.
The subway network It functioned almost normally and, as usual in bad weather, sheltered thousands of homeless people during the storm. Salt machines and snow plows will be used thoroughly andn New York, where Central Park was covered by 19 centimeters of snow and the lregional train lines were partially closed.
In Times Square, heart of New York, the neon signs on the billboards faded. In the modern neighborhood of Cobble Hill, in Brooklyn, the sidewalks were almost deserted and many businesses were closed. New York and the neighboring state of New Jersey, in addition to Virginia, Maryland Y Delaware, declared the emergency for all or part of those states.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul warned residents Saturday that “the most dangerous phase of the storm is now.” “Come home tonight carefully, stay home through the weekend, avoid any unnecessary travel,” the governor said in a statement, noting that there would be especially heavy snowfall in Long Island, New York and the lower area of hudson valley.
The cold spread to South Florida, where he NWS warned of “scattered or isolated iguana falls from the trees”, since the drop in temperatures temporarily paralyzes these large lizards.
Residents of towns and cities all east coast were warned to avoid all unnecessary travel as well as additional heavier snowfall in New England. In Long Island, officers reported that a woman was found dead in her car by a snowplow operator.
The governments of the states of New York and New Jersey declared the state of emergency Y Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, decree snow emergency.
The gobernador de Massachusetts, Charlie Baker, stated that there had been “serious snowfall for most of midday”, and that there was still “fairly limited visibility”.
Some 3,500 flights, both internal and international, were canceled on saturday in U.S, according to the flight tracker FlightAware. Some 1,000 flights that were due to take off on Sunday have also been suspended. Cancellations on Friday totaled more than 1,450.
The storm came after another similar one that covered with snow two weeks ago much of eastern North America, from Georgia to Canada, leaving many homes without power and disrupting thousands of air connections.
Despite harsh winters, especially in Boston, experts have underlined the phenomenon of climate change with the bomb cyclone phenomenon that have affected U.S but also to Eastern Mediterranean with unprecedented snowfall Greece, Turkey e Israel.
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