A rare winter blizzard loomed over Los Angeles, even as the US East Coast basked in summer-like temperatures. Read more at straitstimes.com.
LOS ANGELES - Californians more used to flip flops and shorts were wrapping up warm on Thursday as a rare winter blizzard – the first in more than 30 years – loomed over Los Angeles, even as the US East Coast basked in summer-like temperatures.
While downtown Los Angeles was not expected to see any of the white stuff, there are plenty of mountains nearby. In the Sierra, where storms in January left a voluminous snowpack, more was expected, along with plummeting temperatures.“Wind chills will be dangerous at times in exposed areas of the high Sierra, plunging as low as -34 deg C.”Will possible 2023 El Nino mean hotter weather to come for S’pore, other parts of world?Other more winter-hardened parts of the country were also getting hit on Thursday, with the area around the Great Lakes suffering power outages.
Local media in Van Buren County, Michigan, reported that a volunteer firefighter was killed by a downed power line.
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