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More than 100 million Americans are in the path of the storm as it tracks from the southern Plains to the East Coast over the next few days, the National Weather Service said.
But the nation's heartland will get some relief over the weekend, the weather service reported, as the frigid air will begin to moderate over the next couple days.
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Snow Syria
Snow Syria
Large parts of Syria were covered, including the capital Damascus which is witnessing this winter's first snowfall. Snow was as high as 15 cm (6 inches) in the mountains of Sweida province, according to the official state news agency SANA.
Roads in some provinces were blocked. In the central province of Hama, bulldozers shoveled snow to open roads while vehicles skidded on ice, further causing traffic disruption.
The University of Damascus called off mid-term exams scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday in all its branches around Syria because of the extreme weather conditions. The country's ports remained open.
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Snowfall in Saint Catherin, Egypt:
Heavy snowfall, gales as winter storm hits Middle East , 16_17 feb 2021
Snow is blanketing parts of Syria, Lebanon and Israel, JORDAN, NORTH SAUDI ARABIA AND SAINT CATHERINE,EGYPT ,blocking roads, disrupting traffic and even delaying exams at some universities
00:00 JORDAN SNOWFALL
05:09 SYRIA , SNOWFALL
06:36 LEBANON , SNOWFALL
07:57 ISRAEL , SNOWFALL
08:40 Palestine , SNOWFALL
09:42 SAUDI ARABIA, TABUK , SNOWFALL
10:23 EGYPT, SAINT CATHERINE , SNOWFALL
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A historic cold outbreak has led in the coldest air in decades across the United States, reaching all the way to the Rio Grande and bringing record amounts of snow and ice to the Deep South.
Here are some of the records that have been broken across the United States by the cold weather as well as some of the more interesting statistics recorded due to the extreme temperatures.
Extreme cold yet a record high
There was a 130-degree spread in temperatures across the US yesterday, from 90 degrees in Florida to 40 below zero in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
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Snowplows works to clear the road in Oklahoma City on Sunday, February 14.
Snowplows works to clear the road in Oklahoma City on Sunday, February 14.
Extreme cold yet a record high
There was a 130-degree spread in temperatures across the US yesterday, from 90 degrees in Florida to 40 below zero in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
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Local media reported on 15 February that around 3,000 houses were flooded in Maputo Province. Around 1,200 of those are in Matola district. Parts of Maputo city were affected, along with Marracuene district where the Incomáti River broke its banks, and Boane District where the Umbeluzi River overflowed.
The country's disaster agency, Instituto Nacional de Gestão Redução do Risco de Desastres (INGD), issued warnings of heavy rain and flooding from 10 February.
The Parthenon temple on the Acropolis hill archaeological site during a heavy snowfall in Athens
The cold front, dubbed "Medea" after the mythical Greek sorceress of the Argonauts, sent temperatures plunging, with a maximum low of minus 19 degrees Celsius in the northwestern city of Florina.
"The last time we saw so much snow in the centre of Athens was in February 2008," meteorologist Costas Lagouvardos told AFP.
On the island of Evia near Athens, two elderly men suffering from respiratory problems died after their breathing apparatus failed during a power outage, state TV ERT reported.
On Crete, a livestock farmer in his 60s was found dead in the snow outside his granary at the village of Kaminaki in the east of the island, TV ERT added.
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This photo of the Ocean Isle Beach area shows the destruction Tuesday morning following the potential tornado February 15, 2021
This photo of the Ocean Isle Beach area shows the destruction Tuesday morning following the potential tornado February 15, 2021
The massive winter storm that overwhelmed a Southwestern power grid and immobilized the Southern Plains was carrying heavy snow and freezing rain eastward, with bad weather spreading through into New England and the Deep South, the National Weather Service said.
The storm system left behind record-setting cold temperatures with wind-chill warnings extending from Canada into Mexico.
The Southwest Power Pool (SPP), which manages a 14-state grid from North Dakota to Oklahoma, on Tuesday ordered the second day of rolling blackouts, the news outlet reported.
SPP executive vice president and chief operating officer Lanny Nickell said in a statement that the move was a "last resort" and SPP had never before ordered such interruptions.
Comment: Check out Austin, Texas this week: it's covered in ice!
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