New York, Dec 27: A relentless storm, what the government known as the blizzard of the century paralyzed western New York in the United States (US) over the Christmas weekend.
So far, the storm has killed 27 people in New York and at least 60 across the whole of the United States.
At its worst, as many as 1.8 million properties were without power in the US, with thousands of flights canceled and delayed.
But the number of homes without power is now around 150,000, even though greater than 55 million Americans remained under wind chill alerts on Sunday.
In Canada, at least 140,000 homes are without electricity, most of them in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec.
Four people were killed on Christmas Eve after a bus rolled over in icy conditions on Highway 97C near Loon Lake, about 200 miles east of Vancouver.
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The local healthcare authority – Interior Health – told Canada’s CBC that 52 people were sent to the hospital and 36 needed further treatment.
By early afternoon on Christmas Day, eight people remained in the hospital, two of them in a serious condition.
Temperatures could fall as low as -43C
Canada’s meteorological agency said that temperatures would remain low in many parts of the country this week.
Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories is expected to fall to -28C (-18F) overnight but, with wind chill factored in, this could be as low as -43C (-45F), bringing the risk of frostbite in just minutes.
Whitehorse, in Canada’s Yukon territory, was expected to fall to -30C (-22F) with wind chill factored in.
