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hello and welcome to bbc news. at least 60 people have been killed in winter storms across the united states and canada. president biden has approved an emergency declaration allowing federal support for new york state. the city of buffalo has borne the brunt of the arctic conditions. it lies in the great lakes region and near the canadian border 27 bodies have been recovered there; and more are expected to be found in cars buried in the snow. blizzards have blocked roads and brought down power lines making it hard to get food and medicine. sean dilley reports. forfive days, blizzard conditions have disrupted life and travel across america. dozens of deaths have been reported, more are expected in the coming days. emergency services are among those struggling with the weather. a quarter of a million homes and businesses are estimated to have been hit by power cuts on christmas eve and christmas day. the impact of the storm has stretched from canada to the mexican bo ....
hello and welcome. at least 60 people have been killed in winter storms across the united states and canada. president biden has approved an emergency declaration allowing federal support for new york state. the city of buffalo, in new york state, has borne the brunt of the arctic conditions. it lies in the great lakes region and near the canadian border 27 bodies have been recovered there, and more are expected to be found in cars buried in the snow. blizzards have blocked roads and brought down power lines, making it hard to get food and medicine. sean dilley reports. forfive days, blizzard conditions have disrupted life and travel across america. dozens of deaths have been reported, more are expected in the coming days. emergency services are among those struggling with the weather. a quarter of a million homes and businesses are estimated to have been hit by power cuts on christmas eve and christmas day. the impact of the storm has stretched from canada to the mex ....
Improve in the days ahead, but until then authorities say people should only travel if it s totally essential. sean dilley, bbc news. earlier, i spoke to matthew cappucci a meteorologist based in washington. he told me that this extreme weather had been widely predicted but the severity has taken many by surprise. this is something we saw coming days in advance, but the bigger story is kind of how this fits in the pattern. last week, we talked about the us bomb cyclone, the low pressure system over the great lakes, sucking down cold air on temperatures of 40 over the central us. the focus was on that, people forgot about the second act. as the storm pulled away to canada, cold air raced down parallel to the great lakes and picked up moisture and deposited those little strips of moisture at the end of the lake ontario and snow belts ....
Ontario and snow belts like the city of buffalo. they saw 150 centimetres of buffalo. they saw 150 centimetres of snow, that was the second act. the storm is done for everyone else except these localised communities in the brunt of the impact. you except these localised communities in the brunt of the impact.- in the brunt of the impact. you say is done for in the brunt of the impact. you say is done for everyone in the brunt of the impact. you say is done for everyone else, - in the brunt of the impact. you say is done for everyone else, can - in the brunt of the impact. you say is done for everyone else, can you | is done for everyone else, can you give us an overview of conditions? in the city of buffalo, it is starting to wind down but in terms of blizzards, blizzards in general are bad, you need three hours of wind, and visibility is down to 500 metres. what is happening in buffalo, they saw two or three days of hurricane force winds, visibility down to five metres, for an ext ....
Earlier, i spoke to matthew cappucci a meteorologist based in washington. he told me that this extreme weather had been widely predicted but the severity has taken many by surprise. this is something we saw coming days in advance, but the bigger story is kind of how this fits in the pattern. so initially last week, we talked about that big us bomb cyclone, this low pressure system that was over the great lakes, that was sucking down frigid air, temperatures of 40 over the central us. everyone s focus was really on that and i think folks forgot about the second act. so as this storm pulled away into canada, cold air on the back side raced down, parallel to the great lakes, then picked up moisture from the great lakes and deposited those little strips of moisture down the wing of the lakes, ie at the end of lake erie and lake ontario and typically vulnerable snow belts, like buffalo and watertown, new york, saw about 150 plus centimetres of snow in some locales and was kind of the sec ....