Extreme Cold Hammers Wide Swath of US Over Holiday Weekend
- Blizzard conditions forecast for the Midwest, Great Lakes
- Cold in Texas could push electricity demand near all-time high
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Extreme winter cold is numbing a wide swath of the US, bringing sleet, snow and freezing rain as far south as Texas, testing its power grid, and even forcing temperature-hearty Buffalo to postpone Sunday’s NFL game.
A powerful winter storm will bring heavy snow and blizzard conditions to the Midwest and Great Lakes regions starting Saturday. The storm will be trailed by an Arctic blast that will freeze an area from Denver to New York during the three-day Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, according to the National Weather Service.