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U.S. NEWS Monday 19 deceMber 2016
Bitter cold front moves across Plains

to Midwest, heads east

CHICAGO (AP) — Danger- Dakota, was even colder road while responding to
ous, record-low tempera- at minus 33 degrees early a crash, but no one was
tures caused cancellations Sunday. injured.
of some holiday festivities In South Dakota, the city In North Carolina, police
in the Plains and Midwest of Huron set a new low for and emergency workers
over the weekend before Sunday’s date of minus 31 reported more than 100
the cold front pushed into degrees. Another record crashes in Raleigh and
the Ohio Valley and the fell in Marshall, Minnesota, Charlotte as the drizzle
Eastern Seaboard on Sun- where it was 31 below zero. combined with tempera-
day. Spencer, Iowa’s negative tures below freezing to cre-
The National Weather Ser- 27 degrees was also a re- ate dangerous icy patch-
vice forecast a warming cord-breaker. es.
trend to start early in the Colorado residents were In Missouri, Jared Leighton,
week in many spots as a digging out after up to 16 a meteorologist with the
quieter weather pattern inches of snow fell across National Weather Service
was expected to develop. the state on Saturday, in Pleasant Hill, said Sunday Olivia DePew, 7, screams with delight as she sleds down Ravine
On Sunday, temperatures stranding motorists and the winter storm Saturday Park hill in the snow Saturday, Dec. 17, 2016, in Kohler, Wis.
plunged to minus 20 de- leaving some areas of the left 2 to 4 inches of snow in Associated Press
grees and lower across state with subzero temper- Missouri and was followed
much of the northern Plains atures on Sunday. The Na- by sub-zero temperatures “It’s still going to be rather “We’ll struggle to get out
with a fresh surge of bitter tional Weather Service said early Sunday. cold, but when you start of the single digits,” he said
arctic air reaching into the the thermometer dipped Leighton said a “gentle with minus 9 anything is go- Sunday. “We might get to
Midwest. to 27 degrees below zero in warmup” is expected. ing to feel warm,” he said. 10 degrees today.”q
A church in Lincoln, Ne- Limon.
braska, canceled its living Breckenridge reported the
nativity scene. Patti Crit- most snow, with 16 inches
tenden, Trinity United Meth- that gave skiers and snow-
odist Church’s director of boarders the heavy snow
youth ministries, told the they have been hoping for
Lincoln Journal Star, “In my all season.
opinion, this is too cold for Snow and freezing rain led
anyone to be standing out- to numerous highway ac-
side — bundled up or not.” cidents, some serious. Per-
In suburban Chicago, an haps the biggest accident
arboretum canceled its was in Baltimore, when
holiday light show planned a tanker carrying gaso-
for Sunday night and a holi- line skidded off a highway
day gift market was can- and exploded, killing two
celed in the Chicago sub- people and causing a
urb of Naperville. nearly 70-vehicle pileup
Travelers were stranded on Interstate 95, authorities
and delayed as a blizzard said. Hospital officials said
shut down Interstate 90 in nearly two dozen people
parts of Montana on Sun- were treated for injuries
day. Authorities urged peo- including broken bones
ple to stay home to avoid and head trauma. A total
endangering themselves of seven remained hospi-
and possible rescuers. talized Sunday with two in
Weather-related delays at critical condition, two in se-
Indianapolis International rious condition and three in
Airport caused about 100 fair condition.
passengers to spend the In southwestern Michigan,
night in the terminal, but icy conditions appear to
most travelers were on their have played a role in a
way Sunday morning. crash that killed a 73-year-
Chicago police said a old motorist.
commercial plane slid off There were dozens of
a runway early Sunday at crashes in Indiana — two of
O’Hare International Air- them with fatalities — due
port. There were no injuries to freezing rain and ice.
reported from the incident The roads were so slick that
just after 1 a.m. authorities had to move
Bismarck, North Dakota, motorists stranded on an
posted a new record low overpass with a ladder.
for the date of Dec. 17 with In Ohio, a Columbus wom-
31 degrees below zero on an died Saturday when her
Saturday before midnight, car skidded off a slick road,
said National Weather Ser- authorities said.
vice meteorologist Zach- In Virginia, a Fairfax Coun-
ary Hargrove. Linton, North ty firetruck slid off an icy