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Live updates: Over 200 million under advisories or warnings from 'historic winter storm'
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Over 200 million people or around 60% of the population are under some form of weather warning or advisory from a “historic winter storm,” forecasters said Friday.
The powerful Arctic front will “continue to sweep across the eastern third of the nation,” the National Weather Service said in a bulletin which warned of “widespread impacts to travel” and the “potential for power outages,” going into the holiday weekend.
“In addition to the very cold temperatures, high winds in the wake of the front will produce dangerous wind chill readings across nearly all of the central to eastern U.S.,” the bulletin added.
Relief in sight for northern Rockies and High Plains
Relief from the deep freeze is in sight for the northern Rockies and High Plains where the arctic blast first materialized, the National Weather Service said.
Temperatures in parts of those regions could rebound by 40 to 60 degrees over the weekend as the cold air mass creeps farther east.