Recently, the winter storm in the United States has brought extreme weather. According to CCTV News and NBC News, as of the 24th, a winter storm that has brought significant cooling and severe rain and snow to large areas of the United States has caused at least 23 deaths. The American people's enthusiasm for the Christmas holiday has been "frozen".
CCTV Finance quoted information from the National Weather Service of the United States as showing that the lowest temperature in some areas of the United States dropped to minus 48 degrees Celsius on the 23rd. The major city in Northeastern Pennsylvania Philadelphia faced the coldest Christmas in more than 20 years, and schools changed to online teaching. In the Texas-U.S.-Mexico border city of El Paso, the temperature also dropped below minus 10 degrees Celsius. In Fairport Harbor, Ohio, gusts reached 120 kilometers per hour.
In addition to low temperatures and strong winds, this winter storm also brought floods to New York State, New Hampshire and other places. The governor of New York State said this was an "epic disaster." According to the National Weather Service of the United States, the current "advisory" or "alert" level warning coverage covers more than 4.24 billion people, accounting for about two-thirds of the U.S. population. In addition, bad weather has seriously affected people's Christmas holiday travel. According to CCTV News, statistics from a flight information tracking website show that more than 3,300 domestic and international flights in the United States were canceled on the 24th, and nearly 7,500 flights were delayed.
According to reports, land transportation has also been affected. North Dakota, Oklahoma, Iowa and other states reported icy roads, blizzards, and almost zero visibility. Government departments strongly advised residents not to go out.
Separately, several of the largest U.S. oil refineries were closed on Friday, leaving homes and businesses without power and heating and electricity prices soaring. The severe freeze sweeping much of the United States combined with a massive winter storm in the Midwest has put two-thirds of the country under an extreme weather warning.
According to CCTV News, data from the US power tracking website PowerOutage.us shows that as of 10:19 on the 24th, Eastern Time, a total of 435,383 users in North Carolina and 79,678 users in South Carolina were without power. In addition, more than 1.7 million customers across the United States were without power.
Due to severe cold weather, more than 1 million barrels per day of refining capacity in the U.S. Gulf region was forced to shut down. These include North America's largest refiner, Motiva's refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, which can process more than 600,000 barrels of crude oil per day. Heating oil and natural gas futures surged.
In addition, due to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, wheat supply has been troubled by the market, and the extreme cold wave in the United States threatens newly planted wheat this season, may further reduce wheat supply .
Editor丨Wang Naixin Comprehensive Beijing Business Daily (reporters Fang Binnan and Zhao Tianshu), CCTV News, CCTV Finance
Pictures丨CCTV News video screenshots, Visual China
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