The Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather: Life-threatening blizzard to impact millions ahead of Christmas
Start your day with the latest weather news – major winter storm, dangerous and potentially life-threatening cold temperatures and a strong earthquake rocks Northern California.
Christmas week blizzard will snarl travel for millions
A dangerous blizzard and the arctic blast that will follow, will lead to potentially life-threatening conditions and massive travel delays in the days leading up to Christmas.
Welcome to the Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather. It’s Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022, and there are only 11 days left in the year.
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Christmas week blizzard could become ‘bomb cyclone'
A massive winter storm is brewing for millions of Americans across the Midwest, Great Lakes and into the Northeast, packing dangerous threats of heavy snow, blizzard conditions, rain, damaging winds and plummeting temperatures that could snarl travel at the peak of the busy holiday season.
Things to know:
- When a storm ‘bombs out’: Explaining how a bomb cyclone forms
- This is the best time to travel for Christmas to avoid winter storm cancellations, delays
- White Christmas forecast: Massive winter storm to leave much of the nation covered in snow for the holiday weekend
A map showing potential snow totals from a major winter storm that's brewing for this busy holiday travel weekend.
(FOX Weather)
Life-threatening cold temperatures to grip large part of US
A blast of arctic air will lead to dangerous, potentially life-threatening conditions this holiday week across the northern Rockies, central and northern Plains and the Upper Midwest, with temperatures dropping well below zero and wind chills reaching minus 50 to minus 60 degrees in some spots by the end of the week.
Things to know:
- What is the ‘feels-like’ temperature?
- These are the all-time coldest temperatures ever recorded in each state
- Florida may see coldest Christmas in over 30 years
Dangerous, life-threatening temperatures are moving into the US this holiday week.
(FOX Weather)
Magnitude 6.4 earthquake shakes Northern California
Residents in Northern California were jolted awake early Tuesday morning when a magnitude 6.4 earthquake was reported about 7.5 west-southwest of Ferndale. More than 50,000 power outages have been reported so far, and damage assessments are underway. Several aftershocks, including a magnitude 4.6 earthquake, have also been reported.
Things to know:
- What to put in an emergency kit
- San Francisco 1906: The earthquake that shook up seismology
- Robot first responders saving live in natural disasters
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake was centered about 7.5 miles west-southwest of Ferndale, California, about 2:34 a.m. PST Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022.
(FOX Weather)
Bonus reads:
- Naughty and nice airports for holiday travel: What list is your airport on?
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- 4 winter weather myths debunked to keep your pet safe
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