Millions in central US brace for life-threatening blizzard
Heavy snow and gale-force winds forecast across the Rockies to the Great Lakes
New York — A blizzard hitting the US Rockies on Wednesday was forecast to move eastward over the next day, threatening to bring new flooding to the Plains states including parts of South Dakota and Missouri that are still recovering from March’s inundation. High spring temperatures will give way to heavy snow, gale-force winds and life-threatening conditions across a swathe of the central US running from the Rockies to the Great Lakes, according to the National Weather Service (NWS). “This is potentially a life-threatening storm,” Patrick Burke, a meteorologist with the NWS’s Weather Prediction Centre in Maryland, said on Wednesday. A cyclone in March dropped heavy rains over that region, causing extensive flooding along the Missouri River and more than $3bn in damage to property and crops in Nebraska and Iowa. Pueblo, Colorado, hit 30°C on Tuesday, but will drop down to -4°C by early Thursday. Similar temperatures are forecast in Denver. The storm is expected to bring blinding, hea...
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