{"id":265322,"date":"2026-01-26T21:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/265322\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T21:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:08:08","slug":"at-least-18-dead-across-multiple-us-states-after-winter-storm-brings-deep-snow-and-ice-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/265322\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 18 dead across multiple US states after winter storm brings deep snow and ice \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tens of millions of Americans were digging out on a bitterly cold Monday in the aftermath of a \u200dwinter storm<\/a> that dropped some 0.3m of snow from New Mexico to New England, paralysed much of the eastern United States<\/a>, caused at least 18 deaths and scuttled thousands of flights. <\/p>\n

From New York<\/a> and Massachusetts in the \u200dnortheast to Texas<\/a> and North Carolina in the south, roads were frozen with ice and buried under snow. At least 25 governors declared states of emergency.<\/p>\n

In some southern states, residents faced winter conditions unseen for decades, with thick ice bringing down trees and power lines. <\/p>\n

The storm was blamed for at least 18 deaths across multiple states. <\/p>\n

In Frisco, Texas, a 16-year-old girl died in a sledding accident on Sunday; another youth \u200cdied in Saline County, Arkansas, while being pulled by an ATV vehicle over snow and ice when it struck a tree, authorities said. In Pennsylvania, three people died while shovelling snow, local media reported.<\/p>\n

\"AA person and their dog walk near the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City on Sunday. Photograph: Angela Weiss\/AFP via Getty <\/p>\n

In Austin, Texas, a person died of \u2060apparent hypothermia while trying to shelter at an abandoned gas station, authorities said. At least five people died in New York City<\/a> from exposure to the cold, mayor \u200cZohran \u200bMamdani<\/a> \u200dsaid on Sunday, urging residents to call for help if they saw anyone out on the street in need. <\/p>\n

While the storm system was drifting away from the east coast into the Atlantic on Monday, a blast of Arctic air was rushing in from Canada behind it, prolonging subfreezing temperatures for several more days, the National Weather Service (NWS) said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis storm is exiting the east coast now, with some lingering snow squalls,\u201d said Allison Santorelli, a meteorologist with the \u2060NWS\u2019s Weather Prediction Center. \u201cBut the big picture story is the extreme cold, it\u2019s lasting into early February.\u201d <\/p>\n

Almost 200 million Americans were under some form of extreme cold alert, from along the Canadian border \u2060to the Gulf of Mexico, forecasters said. Lubbock, Texas, had a low \u2060of minus 20 degrees on Monday, and New York City, Washington DC and Boston all faced very low temperatures through much of the week ahead.<\/p>\n

Nearly 800,000 customers, including both homes and businesses, across the southeastern US were facing the cold weather without power, according to the tracking site PowerOutage.us, including \u200d246,000 in Tennessee. <\/p>\n

\"FallenFallen branches and trees lay across roadways and utility lines during a winter storm on in Nashville, Tennessee, on Sunday. Photograph: Brett Carlsen\/Getty <\/p>\n

The storm affected air traffic, with more than 12,500 US flights cancelled on Sunday \u2013 the most of any day since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.<\/p>\n

About 3,900 flights within, into or out of the US had been cancelled on Monday as 2.15pm Irish time, according to the tracking website FlightAware. US transportation secretary Sean Duffy told CNBC he hopes airports will be \u201cback to normal\u201d by Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The storm\u2019s mix of snow, ice and freezing rain turned many roads and highways dangerously slick.<\/p>\n

In Tulsa, Oklahoma, Ryan DuVal spent part of Sunday driving his vintage fire truck through the city\u2019s icy streets, looking for anyone who needed help.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just saw a need for getting people out of the cold,\u201d he said. \u201cYou know, just cruise the streets, see someone, offer a ride. If they take it, \u200cgreat. If not, I can at least \u200cwarm them up in the truck and just get them a water, meal, something.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"SnowSnow blankets Chinatown in Boston, Massachusetts. Photograph: Scott Eisen\/Getty <\/p>\n

In Bonito Lake, New Mexico, residents were shovelling out after 79cm of snow. New York City\u2019s Central Park received 29cm, while Logan Airport in Boston saw 47cm, Ms Santorelli said.<\/p>\n

New York governor Kathy Hochul said she had mobilised National Guard \u200ctroops in New York City, Long Island and the Hudson Valley to assist with the state\u2019s emergency storm response.<\/p>\n

Announcing that schools would be shut for a remote school day, Mr Mamdani quipped: \u201cI know that this may disappoint some students, so \u2060if you do see me, feel free to throw a snowball at me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, despite the disruptions, the winter conditions were fun for many, including in Washington DC, where a huge crowd gathered on Sunday for a raucous impromptu snowball fight in Meridian Hill Park.<\/p>\n

Families brought sleds to Capitol Hill, where children zoomed down the steep slope below the white-domed seat of the US Congress. \u2013 Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tens of millions of Americans were digging out on a bitterly cold Monday in the aftermath of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,6107,43,9904,40,38,41,39,115,90,18335,20922],"class_list":{"0":"post-265322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-weather-events","19":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}