U.S. snow storm: At least 25 deaths reported as thousands shiver without electricity

More snowfall piled up crossed the US Northeast connected Monday (January 26, 2026) nether the process extremity of a colossal wintertime tempest that brought lingering misery to parts of the South, wherever freezing rainfall near hundreds of thousands shivering without electricity. At slightest 25 deaths were reported amid the terrible weather.

Deep snowfall — implicit a ft extending successful a 2,100-kilometre swath from Arkansas to New England — halted traffic, cancelled flights and triggered wide schoolhouse closures connected Monday (January 26).

The National Weather Service said areas northbound of Pittsburgh got up to 20 inches of snowfall and faced upwind chills arsenic debased arsenic minus 31 degrees Celsius precocious Monday (January 26) into Tuesday (January 27).

A rising decease toll included 2 radical tally implicit by snowplows successful Massachusetts and Ohio, fatal sledding accidents successful Arkansas and Texas, and a pistillate whose assemblage was recovered covered successful snowfall by constabulary with bloodhounds aft she was past seen leaving a Kansas bar. In New York City, officials said 8 radical were recovered dormant outdoors successful the people of the frigid weekend.

More than 75,000 powerfulness outages

There were much than 750,000 powerfulness outages successful the federation by Monday (January 26) midafternoon, according to poweroutage.com. Most of them were successful the South, wherever play blasts of freezing rainfall caused histrion limbs and powerfulness lines to snap, inflicting crippling outages connected bluish Mississippi and parts of Tennessee.

Parts of Mississippi were reeling successful the aftermath of the state's worst crystal tempest since 1994. Officials scrambled to get cots, blankets, bottled h2o and generators to warming stations successful hard-hit areas.

The University of Mississippi, wherever astir students hunkered down without powerfulness Monday, cancelled classes for the full week arsenic its Oxford field remained coated successful treacherous ice. Oxford Mayor Robyn Tannehill said connected societal media that truthful galore trees, limbs and powerfulness lines had fallen that “it looks similar a tornado went down each street.”

A brace of burly, falling histrion branches damaged existent property cause Tim Phillips' caller garage, broke a model and chopped disconnected powerfulness to his location successful Oxford. He said fractional of his neighbours had homes oregon vehicles damaged.

“It's conscionable 1 of those things that you effort to hole for,” Phillips said, “but this 1 was conscionable unreal.”

More than 8,000 formation delays and cancellations

The U.S. had much than 8,000 formation delays and cancellations nationwide connected Monday (January 26), according to formation tracker flightaware.com. On Sunday, 45% of U.S. flights got cancelled, making it the highest time for cancellations since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to aviation analytics steadfast Cirium.

More airy to mean snowfall was forecast successful New England done Monday (January 26) evening.

New York City saw its snowiest time successful years, with 11 inches falling connected Central Park. Main roads passim the metropolis were mostly wide Monday morning, but pedestrians had to plod done snowfall connected immoderate sidewalks and aggregate subway lines with above-ground tracks saw delays.

Bitter acold grips overmuch of the nation

Meanwhile, bitter acold followed successful the storm's wake. Many communities crossed the Midwest, South, and Northeast awakened Monday to subzero weather. The full Lower 48 states were forecast to person their coldest mean debased somesthesia of minus 12.3 C — since January 2014.

Record warmth successful Florida was the lone happening keeping that mean from going adjacent colder, said erstwhile National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration main idiosyncratic Ryan Maue, who calculates nationalist averages based connected National Weather Service data.

In the Nashville, Tennessee, area, energy was backmost for thousands of homes and businesses Monday portion much than 170,000 others awoke bundled up successful powerless homes aft subfreezing temperatures overnight. Many hotels were sold retired overnight to residents escaping acheronian and frigid homes.

Alex Murray booked a Nashville edifice country for his household to guarantee they had a moving freezer to sphere pumped bosom beverage to provender their 6-month-old daughter. Anticipating a agelong hold until powerfulness gets restored astatine his home, Murray planned to widen their edifice enactment done Wednesday.

“I cognize there's galore radical that whitethorn not beryllium capable to find a spot oregon wage for a spot oregon thing similar that, oregon adjacent travel,” Murray said Monday. “So, we were truly fortunate.”

Storm leads to deaths successful a fig of states

In New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani's bureau said astatine slightest 8 radical were recovered dormant extracurricular arsenic temperatures plunged betwixt Saturday and Monday morning, though the origin of their deaths remained nether investigation.

In Emporia, Kansas, constabulary searching with bloodhounds recovered a 28-year-old teacher dormant and covered successful snow. Police said she had was past seen leaving a barroom without her overgarment and phone.

Police said snowplows backed into 2 radical who died successful Norwood, Massachusetts, and Dayton, Ohio. And authorities said 2 teenagers, 1 successful Arkansas and different successful Texas, were killed successful sledding accidents.

Officials reported 3 deaths apiece successful Louisiana, Pennsylvania and Tennessee; 2 deaths successful Mississippi; and 1 successful New Jersey.