“Snow Drought” Broken With Cold & Snowy Conditions

January 16, 2024 5:42 pm

(AP) – Major cities on the U.S. East Coast have broken a snow drought of sorts. Meanwhile, other parts of the country are struggling Tuesday with perilously low temperatures that closed schools, cut power and likely contributed to cold exposure deaths. New York City’s Central Park recorded at least an inch of snow for the first time since 2022. The National Weather Service says Philadelphia snapped a similar 715-day streak. More than 90,000 U.S. homes and businesses are without power, most of them in Oregon, Texas and Louisiana, after widespread weekend outages. In Washington, a friendly snowball fight broke out on the National Mall. The group even has a name: the Washington DC Snowball Fight Association.  (Photo:  AP)