Storm Elliot: the most shocking videos of the storm that hits the United States

The United States is experiencing one of the coldest and most difficult Decembers in recent decades. This is because a large part of the country, about 80 percent, is registered extreme sub-zero temperatures after having undergone the passage of the cyclonic bomb.

Heavy snowfall, flooding, electricity and gas services interrupted, flights canceled and at least 60 people dead in weather-related accidents account for the disaster what is happening at this end of the year.

Is that the arctic frost and the storm elliot for several days they have spread throughout a large part of the country up to the border with Mexico.

The most shocking videos of the great cold storm in the United States

The dense frost caused by a winter storm deadly affects – and will continue to affect – large parts of the United States during the holiday week.

Those who have tried to mobilize to celebrate Christmas as a family have seen their intentions frustrated closed airportsproblems with emergency vehicles getting caught in massive snowdrifts and roads that have become as impossible as they are dangerous.

The entire country, from Florida to the Canadian border – with the exception of California – is affected by Elliott.

With thermals that reached 30° below zero in some areas of the center and north-east of the country there were deaths in at least 12 states: Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Wisconsin.

At least 200 million people In the United States, 60% of the population has been on some kind of weather warning, the National Weather Service (NWS) has indicated.

In this dramatic context, Joe Bidenthe president of the United States approved the declaration of new york state emergencythe hardest hit by the storm, to facilitate federal aid needed to alleviate its effects and care for those affected, the White House said in a statement.

What is a cyclone pump?

The term began to be implemented around 1980after various meteorological surveys.

meteorologists John Gyakum and Fred Sanders updated the work of climate researcher Tor Bergeron, who had given that name to rapidly increasing stormswhich will reach 24 millibars in one day.

Since Bergeron is of Swedish origin, much of his specialist work has focused on analyzing the behavior of storms that have formed in that northern region; so Gyakum and Sanders had to do it adapt his theory to the storms that occurred in the United States.

A cyclonic pump It is a phenomenon that occurs when the pressure drops drastically and a mass of cold air collides with a mass of warm air. But to become a storm of these characteristics cyclone pump, the the pressure must drop by at least 24 millibars in 24 hours.

How to protect yourself from the cyclonic storm?

Specialists and authorities say it is best to stay home during the storm and stock up on food, medicine, water and other essentials such as flashlights and batteries.

Also, you need to have your car’s tank full for emergencies and buy large loads of salt to reduce the huge amount of snow that is expected to fall.