Intensely cold air is scouring the central and eastern U.S. again and will send temperatures plummeting all the way to the tip of Florida. Along with this new Arctic incursion, a major bomb cyclone storm is strengthening off the coast of the Carolinas, potentially bringing rare blizzard conditions to the region. Some areas haven't seen this amount of accumulating snow in over 30 years, wrote the National Weather Service's office in Wilmington, N.C., on Facebook.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has welcomed United States President Donald Trump's announcement that Russia will not attack Kyiv and various Ukrainian towns for seven days as civilians struggle with a lack of heating amid freezing winter temperatures. In a post on social media on Thursday, Zelenskyy said that Trump's comments earlier in the day were an important statement about the possibility of providing security for Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities during this extreme winter period.
All Worcester Public Schools (WPS) will be closed on Friday due to hazardous wind chill conditions, the district said. All WPS athletic events and all Head Start after-school programs are also canceled for Friday. Worcester will see a high of nearly 13 degrees, with a wind chill making it feel as cold as -16, the National Weather Service forecast.
Each is among a growing number of people - at least 10, as of Tuesday - who died after being exposed to the bitter cold that has persisted in New York City since late last Friday. Their causes of death are still under investigation, but some showed signs of having succumbed to hypothermia. Officials said several victims were believed to have been living on the streets. At least six of the fatalities came early Saturday, as the temperature in the city fell to 9 degrees (minus 13 degrees Celsius).
Airports in Paris and Amsterdam were the worst affected, with the Dutch authorities saying more than 1,000 travellers had been forced to spend the night at Schiphol, one of Europe's busiest hubs. Six people have died in weather-related accidents as the continent reels from the most bitter cold snap of the winter so far. Five of those deaths were confirmed in France on Tuesday, while a woman died in Bosnia as heavy snow and rain sparked floods and power outages across the Balkans.
