By Jason Taylor
Feb 16, 2021
DES MOINES, Iowa - Wind Chill Warning and Advisories in Iowa have been extended until 10 am Tuesday due to extreme weather conditions.
The National Weather Service says dangerous wind chills will continue through Tuesday morning as an Arctic air mass maintains a firm grip on the region.
Wind chills will vary from 20 below zero to 40 below zero across the state, with the coldest readings expected within the Wind Chill Warning over central and western Iowa.
At these low wind chill values, frostbite is threat to anyone exposed and unprotected from the cold.
Steady improvement is expected through the week with a return to near average highs this weekend.
HOUSTON, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) Up to 2.5 million customers were without power in the U.S. state of Texas Monday morning as the state's power generation capacity is impacted by an ongoing winter storm brought by Arctic blast.
The cold arctic air remains in place over South Texas on this Tuesday morning as many of us are beginning with temperatures well below freezing in the teens and 20s.
Express Briefing: Frozen pipes? S.A. plumber gives some advice
Feb. 16, 2021
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Even among San Antonians who’d heeded plumbers’ warnings trickling faucets overnight to prevent pipes from freezing the record-shattering cold meant that many residents still awoke to frozen pipes.
It was a first for many San Antonians: Low temperatures in the single digits, a blanket of ankle-deep snow, icy and impassable roads. Residents filled social media with rare photographs of snow covering trees, homes and cars then flooded those same online forums with questions about plumbing problems that arose overnight.