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wow. thanks so much to you for joining us. ac 360 begins now. the forecast? wretched. the timing? even worse. once in a generation winter storm and this one they say is going to be very, very dangerous. i m in for anderson, john berman here. already nearly half the country s population is shivering under wind chill alerts or has seen temperatures drop as much as 70 degrees overnight. this is sioux falls, south dakota. you know it s cold there when the falls at sioux falls stop falling. because they re frozen solid. you know how widespread the big chill could get when places as far south as tallahassee in florida are forecasting lows in the low 20s. if that weren t enough we re seeing countless blizzard warnings, flood watches, wind and ice advisories and of course thousands of flight cancellations. nearly 2400 already today. more than 2,000 for tomorrow. all of this smack dab in the middle of the christmas travel rush. it s not just snow. it is wind and cold as ....
team coverage today. adam klotz is in the studio tracking the storm and bringing the christmas forecast. let s start with jackie ibanez reporting on the devastating conditions. multiple families will be spending the holiday without loved ones, five people from oklahoma have died, including a 16-year-old boy. the storm is impacting nearly every state in the lower 48, mother nature unleashing fury during the busiest time of the year, leaving many with nowhere to sleep, except the floor of the airport terminal. im00 not optimistic, if it was a cancelled flight, it is not good. i got to go back down here, rebook or refund. we were anticipating the flight was going to get cancelled and rebooked on southwest and rebooked twice on united this afternoon. i contemplated driving in case flights got cancelled. 12,000 flight delays and cancellations for millions, six states are sounding the alarm calling for a state of emergency. accumulating heavy snowfall and temperat ....
How dangerous are these conditions? it doesn t take long to get frostbite. the national weather service highlighting 45 below is the exposed wind temperature on your skin and takes five minutes to get frostbite. we have realized these numbers and some for places like castor, wyoming a wind chill reading of negative 76 degrees this morning and the advisories stretch from the north all the way to the gulf of mexico. some places like jackson, mississippi will stay below freezing for the next three days. more of the same for birmingham as well as houston and dallas. not only do you want to protect your family and yourselves as you step outside but also your home. cover your pipes if you can tonight. in atlanta you have a huge temperature swing coming your way within the next six hours as our cold front settles in. nashville to atlanta, your temperatures will drop get this 30 degrees in the coming hours. some of the numbers just extraordinary. thank you very much. again, even those who ....
Particularly cold weather and the wind. seeing frigid temperatures this morning. everything in the blue or pink or purple is wind temperature below freezing. the feels-like temperature, that is when you get feels-like and getting into texas, negative 2, negative 5, negative 16 and big pink color covering the upper midwest, negative 30 to 40 today. frigid. these are temperature changes, chicago is 41 degrees colder than it was yesterday morning and 35 degrees cooler in louisville. massive plunge is taking over the country. this system has been heavy rain up and undo the east coast and pouring in new york city. downpours coming down as we speak. back toward the west is winter weather we continue to track, everything in the orange is blizzard warning, winds are up ....
this storm has been uniquely bumpy. our our flight yesterday was heavily influenced by some of the dry air that was coming in from the from the west. and so, we had some of the strongest [ inaudible ] that we have had from storms in quite a few years. all that dry air intruding into the hurricane has really caused a really tough ride for us to try to fly and measure each of the quadrants of the storm to try to get a good picture of what what the storm is trying to tell us. and and just explain that, again. you get into the center and you are trying to measure what? so we try to measure all four corners of the storm including sensors that can measure the service wind speeds, as well as we drop instruments that measure the wind temperature and pressure profile throughout the ....