More than 58,000 Texas homes and businesses are without power as a winter storm with frigid temperatures and winds hits the state.
Snow appears to blow across the runway at Denver International Airport on Wednesday.Temperatures in Denver are expected to sink below zero by Thursday morning, the National Weather Service has warned.
“That’s the kind of changes that are going to be occurring as this front pushes southward: rapid temperature drops, sometimes 50 or more degrees colder than the previous day,” said Bob Oravec, a forecaster with the weather service. “It’s a pretty powerful, powerful system.”Phil Helsel Memphis, Tennessee, and Little Rock, Arkansas, could get rain and snow Thursday afternoon and evening, and Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and New York City could get heavy rain, according to NBC News’ Climate Unit.
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