The Winter Walk events encourage everyone to travel by foot for at least 15 minutes, and "don’t let the cold scare you off," the state Transportation Department says on its website. Light winds meant 35 below in some areas where a wind chill advisory was in effect. On Minnesota's annual Winter Walk and Winter Walk to School Day, residents of some areas of northern Minnesota woke up to temperatures as low as minus 25 degrees, the National Weather Service office in Duluth said. WHAT IS WIND CHILL? Understanding the wind chill index and how it's calculated Wind chill of 35 degrees below zero in Northern Minnesota ►LaGuardia Airport in New York experienced a ground stop for the second morning in a row because of wintry conditions and later reported average delays of more than 40 minutes. ►A winter storm warning was in effect until Thursday in east central, southeast and southern Oklahoma. ►A warm front moving north from the Gulf Coast will bring heavy showers and possibly scattered flash flooding to portions of the Deep South and Southeast on Thursday, the weather service said. ►In Memphis, Tennessee, services for Tyre Nichols, who died after being beaten by police officers during a traffic stop last month, were delayed more than two hours "due to weather and travel delays." ►The NBA postponed Wednesday night's game between the Detroit Pistons and the visiting Washington Wizards because the Pistons couldn't fly back home after their loss Monday night in Dallas against the Mavericks. Over 12 million are still under ice storm warnings and 7 million are under winter storm warnings, the weather service said Wednesday. The weather service said Wednesday that "the epic ice storm should come to a close on Thursday," and states across the Southern Plains to the Mid-South remain under various storm warnings and advisories. AccuWeather reported a "real feel" temperature of 28 degrees in Dallas on Wednesday morning – 3 degrees warmer than in Anchorage, Alaska.
Parts of Texas were colder than Alaska early in the day. The city’s community-owned electric utility said its crews were facing icy roads and frozen equipment, which made it "difficult to provide estimated restoration times." Power outages were expected to last 12 to 24 hours in the Texas state capital as ice brought down power lines and tree limbs, Austin Energy warned. School systems across Arkansas, along with those in Dallas, Austin, Texas, and Memphis, Tennessee, canceled classes for Thursday. "We really cannot emphasize this enough: DO NOT BE ON THE ROADS," the National Weather Service office in Fort Worth tweeted Wednesday. "They are going to virtually be impassable through today and tonight." Wrecks on slippery roads have been reported in Texas, Arkansas and other states across the region all week. The winter weather system, now in its third day, has swept from Minnesota deep into Texas.
Thursday updates: Read the latest weather news here.ĪUSTIN, Texas – Texans in more than 340,000 homes and businesses braced for near-freezing temperatures without power Wednesday and more than 2,300 flights were canceled amid an unrelenting blast of treacherous, icy conditions and brutal cold that has left at least six dead. Watch Video: Intense winter storm wreaks havoc across southern US, delays flights
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