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In northern California, 76 centimeters fell in 24 hours, making the roads impassable. Further north, Canada has recorded records for freezing temperatures. The Golden State and the states of Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana and Colorado are on avalanche alert, the snow accumulated since Sunday remaining unstable, the British channel BBC reported on Monday. In eastern California, Nevada is shivering below -48 ° C in felt temperatures. “The intense cold of the wind can cause frostbite after only five minutes of skin exposure,” authorities warned.
Bad weather in Washington and Oregon has caused power outages. But it was California that was the most affected with, Monday morning (local time), 28,000 homes without electricity, according to the Power Outage US site.
Conversely, in the south of the country, Texas faces particularly high temperatures for the season: a record of 32 ° C was indeed recorded in Wichita Falls, near the border with Oklahoma. In Houston, the mercury was 27 ° C.
In Canada, the province of Alberta and parts of British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba have been placed on alert due to the extreme cold, according to CTV News. In Alberta, felt temperatures down to -55 ° C are expected, -40 ° C in Saskatchewan.
In Rabbit Kettle, Northwest Territories, the thermometer read -51 ° C for the first time since February 2013, The Weather Network reported on Sunday. Other weather stations in the Canadian province recorded as low as -47 ° C, while average temperatures generally hover around -10 ° C to -30 ° C at the end of December.
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