An arctic blast is gripping much of the United States, driving power outages, flight cancellations and car crashes, as plummeting temperatures were predicted to bring the coldest Christmas Eve on record to several cities from Pennsylvania to Georgia
Temperatures are forecast to top out at just -13 Celsius in Pittsburgh, surpassing its previous all-time coldest Christmas Eve high set in 1983, the National Weather Service said.
The freeze already produced fatal car collisions around the country with CNN reporting at least 14 dead from weather-related accidents. Freezing rain and ice from a separate storm in the Pacific Northwest made travel treacherous there as well. With energy systems across the country strained by rising demand for heat and storm-related damage to transmission lines, as many as 1.8 million US homes and businesses were left without power as of early morning, according to tracking site Poweroutage.us.
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