About three million people will be without power in Texas on Monday as a result of a winter storm that has hit about 40 US states and caused the closure of several airports and the country’s largest oil refinery.
According to the website poweroutage.us, which documents power outages, nearly 2.8 million people in Texas are without powerMore of it 325,000 in OregonAlmost 117,000 in LouisianaY 106631 in Mississippi
The CNN television network said the Federal Aviation Administration closed Baton Rouge Metro and Lafayette airports in Louisiana Monday due to ice and snow.
Added to these facilities are the airports of Houston (Texas) and Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers, Mississippi.
Motiva Enterprises, in turn, has announced the temporary closure of Port Arthur Manufacturing Complex, the largest crude oil refinery in the US, located in Port Arthur, Texas, due to “unprecedented freezing temperatures.”
The company added that it will resume operations once it is safe.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said in a statement that about 150 million Americans – half the country’s population – are currently affected by winter storm warnings.
According to your prediction, Heavy snow and sleet are expected in the Mississippi and Ohio valleys, which head northeast.
Low temperatures and little rainfall are also possible in eastern Texas and other parts of the central US, as well as in the southeast, while heavy rainfall is expected in Oregon and California in the west.
The storm has created unprecedented scenes in Texas, where it has snowed south to Brownsville, on the border with Mexico, and where snow has only been recorded twice in history since registration began in 1898.
The phenomenon has also caused a drop in temperature that had not been observed in some parts of the country for decades.Such as Dallas, which has registered 5 degrees Fahrenheit (-15 degrees Celsius) and Oklahoma City -6 degrees Fahrenheit (-21 degrees Celsius). The two cities had not experienced such a cold since 1989.
Rapid City, South Dakota, has known five consecutive nights below -12 degrees Fahrenheit (-24 degrees Celsius), which hasn’t happened since 1943.