Recently, the US winter storm brought extreme weather. According to CCTV News and NBC News, as of

the 24th, a winter storm that brought significant cooling and severe rain and snow weather to large parts

of the US has killed at least 23 people. The enthusiasm of the American people to welcome the Christmas

holiday is frozen.  

CCTV Finance and Economics quoted information from the National Meteorological Administration of the

United States that the lowest temperature in some parts of the United States hit minus 48 degrees Celsius

on the 23rd, and the main city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the northeast was facing the coldest

Christmas in more than 20 years, so schools changed to online teaching. In El Paso, a border city between

the United States and Mexico in Texas, the temperature also dropped below minus 10 degrees Celsius. In

Fairport Harbor, Ohio, gusts of wind reach 120 kilometers per hour.

In addition to low temperature and strong winds, the winter storm also brought floods to New York, New

Hampshire and other places. The governor of New York state said that this was an "epic disaster". According

to the National Weather Service of the United States, at present, more than 240 million people are warned

at the "recommended" or "alert" level, accounting for about two-thirds of the United States population. In

addition, the bad weather has a serious impact on people's travel during the Christmas holiday. According to

CCTV News, statistics from a flight information tracking website showed that more than 3300 U.S. domestic

and international flights were canceled on the 24th, and nearly 7500 flights were delayed.

It is reported that land transportation is also affected. North Dakota, Oklahoma, Iowa and other states report

that roads are frozen, snowstorms, and visibility is almost zero. Government departments strongly advise

residents not to go out.

In addition, several of the largest oil refineries in the United States were closed on Friday, households and

businesses were cut off, and heating and electricity prices soared. The severe cold that swept most of the

United States and the large-scale winter storms in the central and western regions have put two-thirds of the

United States under extreme weather warnings.

According to CCTV News, as of 10:19 a.m. EDT on the 24th, 435383 users in North Carolina and 79678 in

South Carolina had lost power, according to PowerOutage.us, an American power tracking website. In

addition, more than 1.7 million users in the United States lost power.

Due to severe cold weather, the refining capacity of more than 1 million barrels per day in the U.S. Gulf

region was forced to close. These include the refinery of Motiva, the largest oil refiner in North America, in

Port Arthur, Texas, which can process more than 600000 barrels of crude oil per day. Heating oil and natural

gas futures rose sharply.

In addition, due to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the wheat supply has been puzzling the market,

while the extreme cold wave in the United States has threatened the newly planted wheat in this season,

which may further reduce the wheat supply.

 

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