Record storms in other parts of the world
Randy Mann.
JAKE PARRISH/Press
Last week, residents in Russia’s Far East were buried by the heaviest snow in about 60 years. The snow and very cold weather moved across Asia last Tuesday, which brought rare snowfalls to China. A town in eastern Russia called Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, which is located on the Kamchatka peninsula’s east coast, reported more than 6 feet of snow during the first half of January. This is combined with about 12 feet in December, which smashed all-time records. In addition to the snowfall, strong winds led to large snow drifts that buried cars and other vehicles.
As of the weekend, a very powerful winter storm was gripping a large portion of the U.S. Places from Texas into the Northeast were likely to experience a storm that will cross over 2,000 miles and bring snow and dangerous ice. Locations from northeastern Texas northeastward into Virginia may see ice accumulations of one-half to an inch. With strong winds, wind chills down to at least -50 degrees were expected across the northern U.S., especially in North Dakota and Minnesota.
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