US gripped by severe winter storm with snow, ice and plunging temperatures – latest news

2026-01-26 - 12:23

Many alerts remain in place with power outages in some regions Tens of millions of Americans hunkered down on Monday or ventured out to help neighbors under bitter cold, blizzards of snow and lashings of freezing rain from a huge winter storm that paralyzed the eastern United States. From New York and Massachusetts in the northeast to Texas and North Carolina in the south, roads were frozen slick with ice and buried under often more than a foot of snow, Reuters reported. Continue reading...