Abnormal weather in the US: Florida for the first time in 29 years that it snowed

In the North-East USA and in Canada raged a snow-storm, which led to traffic jams, interruptions in the supply of electricity, as well as to the anomalous precipitation in the South. It is reported Reuters.

Difficult weather conditions established in Boston (Massachusetts), Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) and new York. In these regions abolished more than three thousand flights. In the States of Virginia, North Carolina and Florida wind speeds up to 110 km/h has led to breakages of power lines, in the Atlantic provinces of Canada without electricity remained about 70 thousand consumers.

The report said that in new York and Boston stopped traffic due to a snow storm. Under forecasts of weather forecasters, snowfalls observed in the Eastern regions of the country and on the Atlantic coast in the coming days can only increase. Some places expect a loss of up to half a meter of snow. On 4 January in new York city has closed schools, there the temperature dropped to minus 5 degrees.

In St. Louis (Missouri) also observed abnormal weather, the temperature dropped to minus 13 degrees, which is 15-20 degrees below normal for this time of year. In some southern States have unusually cold weather. In Tallahassee (Florida) for the first time in 29 years, the snow. In neighboring Georgia, forecasters are predicting 5 to 10 inches of rain in North Carolina – up to 8-14 inches of snow.

28 December as a result of heavy snowfall in the UK has any large-scale disruption of supply of electricity throughout the country.

See also: snow trap: thousands of people stuck near the French Alps

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