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A winter storm is disrupting holiday travel and some places have experienced temperatures plummeting 50 degrees Fahrenheit within a matter of hours.

Thousands of flights were canceled and homeless shelters are overflowing amid one of the most treacherous holiday travel seasons the U.S. has seen in decades. Some places have experienced temperatures plummeting 50 degrees Fahrenheit within a matter of hours. Forecasters expect a bomb cyclone to develop late Thursday into Friday near the Great Lakes. That occurs when atmospheric pressure drops quickly in a strong storm.

Weather departments issued warnings for a bomb cyclone — when atmospheric pressure drops very quickly in a strong storm, resulting in the cancellation of thousands of flights.

Thousands of flights were canceled and homeless shelters were overflowing Thursday amid one of the most treacherous holiday travel seasons the U.S. has seen in decades, with temperatures plummeting 50 degrees Fahrenheit in some areas and forecasters warning of an impending “bomb cyclone” that could make conditions even worse before Christmas. The frigid air was…

Thousands of flights were canceled, homeless shelters were overflowing Thursday in one of the most difficult holiday travel seasons the U.S. has seen in decades