US faces coldest Christmas in years as Arctic storm raises 'bomb cyclone' alarm

A deep freeze enveloping most of the United States early on Friday combined with a massive winter storm to leave two-thirds of the nation under extreme weather alerts, confounding travel plans for millions of Americans.

Heading into the Christmas holiday weekend, the looming storm is forecast to develop into a "bomb cyclone", unleashing heavy snow from the Great Lakes region to the upper Mississippi Valley and western New York.

Numbing cold intensified by high winds is expected to extend as far south as the US-Mexico border.

Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/12/23/us-faces-coldest-christmas-decades-disrupting-travel-amid-arctic/

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