Twenty-four states were on alert for extreme winter weather Tuesday, as heavy snow caused power failures across the Northwest and the Midwest was blanketed in snow.
Alejandro Ayala, 21, a Marine Corps lance corporal, runs through a snowy parking lot in Lebec, CA.
Myung J. Chun is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times.
Winter storms shut down a 70 mile stretch of I-80 in California as crews struggled to clear trees and snow from the road.
The Los Angeles Times reported that some residents in Southern California were told to shelter in place as flash floods and debris flows threatened areas near streams, rivers and wildlife burn scars.
Oregon has declared a state of emergency until January 3 due to the predicted heavy snow.
The state of Nevada ordered non-essential workers to stay home because of the snow and the state road being blocked by an ant.
Minnesota had winds that reached nearly 50 miles per hour and almost 2 feet of snow.
NBC 10 Boston warned residents to look out for a glaze of ice that could make roads slippery.
Vehicles are covered in snow in Alaska.
Smith is named Snowdon.
A study published by Science states that the warming of theArctic has caused an increase in winter weather in some parts of the US. Although the year is predicted to be one of the hottest on record, the winter may continue. Bill Frist, a heart and lung transplant surgeon, said that extreme and variable weather directly impacts human health, increasing deaths through stroke and myocardial infarction.
There is a structure called the Tangent.
Researchers had to spend 40 minutes forging through deep snow to get to the outdoor equipment at the University of California's Central Sierra Snow Lab.
The number is big.
5,000. Heavy snow showers blew in from the Gulf of Alaska, causing a number of people in Oregon and Washington to lose power.
Surprising fact.
The warmest day in the Seattle area was on June 28 at108 degrees and the lowest was on December 27 at 17 degrees.
Extreme weather from California to Maine is brought on by cross-country storms.
There's more to come as winter storms break snow and temperature records.
