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Sunday, January 5, 2014

UNITED STATES. Cold wave record, traffic resumed at JFK

The northern United States shivering Sunday, January 5 , with temperatures up to -38 ° C in Wisconsin, and was preparing to start a week more glacial , during which dozens of cold records could be beaten .

In New York, the appalling weather conditions have led to the closure for two hours in the morning from the airport John F. Kennedy, after leaving trail of an aircraft that had slipped because of freezing rain and snow .

The closing track , which lasted 8:32 ( 2:32 p.m. French time) to 11 hours ( 17 hours French time) about , was ordered after the landing of a Delta Airlines flight from Toronto (Canada) who slipped and hit a snowbank while he was on a track access road. The incident has no injuries among the 35 people on board, according to ABC. ==> 


Delays takeoff from the airport , one of the largest in the United States, exceeded one hour from 50 to 11 am ( 17 hours in France ), and a dozen flights had been canceled as FlightAware site. com specializes in monitoring air traffic .

The worst is yet to come ...

Other nearby airports also knew some delays, averaging 28 minutes La Guardia 38 minutes and Newark , New Jersey. Another black spot : Airport Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ( northeast ) also experiencing arrival delays of two hours on average due to weather conditions, according to the FAA

But this is Chicago O'Hare - where from 20 to 25 cm of snow should fall airport by Sunday evening that the situation was the worst , with delays in the late morning more than 5 hours on average .

The northern United States and Canada are neighbors since the beginning of polar temperatures and snowfall have killed at least 11 people in the United States.

Sunday snow were expected Missouri to the Great Lakes region , according to U.S. weather services , evoking Sunday by prolonged exposure " experienced life-threatening temperatures ."

Yet the worst is yet to come up and record cold 70 could be beaten by Tuesday in northern and north- eastern United States, but also in parts of south-east tip on The Weather Channel its website. Monday, it will be colder in Atlanta , yet located 1,200 miles south of Chicago, at Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska , says CNN.

Felt temperature up to -54 ° C

By Monday , the perceived temperature could drop to -54 ° C in Minnesota , prevents weather , stressing that its temperature , severe skin lesions may occur in 5 to 10 minutes of exposure.

Sunday already , a record of 1967 could fall : that of the football game as glacial history. A Green Bay, Wisconsin , where the Packers will host the San Francisco 49ers , the temperature feels like -23 ° C Sunday morning. The local team has promised fans traveling to Lambeau Field , where the previous record was set with a wind chill of -38 ° C , coffee, hot chocolate and hand warmers .

Return to his home state of Hawaii, where he spent 16 days in the Pacific family vacation , Barack Obama has suffered the brunt of the winter weather experienced by the north and east of the country : it is in a large black cloak that descended from Air Force One Sunday around 9:55 ( 3:55 p.m. French time) near Washington, to face the 2 ° C and freezing rain that falls on the U.S. capital. In Hawaii , it was 27 ° C at the time of his departure.

The neighbor Canada is also preparing to face - freezing temperatures down to -17 ° C in Toronto Tuesday and snowfall of up to 25 cm were announced for Sunday near the 4th city in North America .

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