NEW YORK
\nPerilously cold temperatures threatened millions of Americans in the wake of a sprawling winter storm that left at least 23 people dead as it knocked out power and paralysed transportation. A frigid, life-threatening Arctic air mass could delay recovery as municipalities from New Mexico to Maine tried to dig out following the storm, which dropped a vicious cocktail of heavy snow and wind, along with freezing rain and sleet. Forecasters warned that much of the northern half of the country will see temperatures that are \u201ccontinuously below freezing through February 1,\u201d and \u201crecord low temperatures tonight across the South are particularly dangerous in the wake of the weekend winter storm with many still without power,\u201d the National Weather Service said in an X post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW YORK Perilously cold temperatures threatened millions of Americans in the wake of a sprawling winter storm that left at least 23 people dead as it knocked out power and paralysed transportation. A frigid, life-threatening Arctic air mass could delay recovery as municipalities from New Mexico to Maine tried to dig out following the storm, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"yoast_head":"\n