DHAKA: Storm Grayson is wreaking havoc and has already claimed at least 16 lives across eastern North America as a severe pressure drop led to a monster winter storm, reports Express Tribune. 

Of the 16, six in Wisconsin, four in Texas, three in  North Carolina, one in South Carolina, one in North Dakota and one in Missouri.

The snowstorms left more than 13 million people subject to blizzard warnings from Virginia in the mid-Atlantic to Maine in the far northeast.

More than 5,000 flights have been cancelled, schools were shut in New York City, trains were not running in the Boston area and offices closed throughout the region as the east coast battened down the hatches.

The “bomb cyclone” was captured from space by a NASA satellite showing the sheer size of the storm. 

The cyclone will continue to be a “deadly” situation a forecast by Fox News has warned. 

Fox News senior meteorologist Janice Dean warned the storm will bring historic low temperatures and coupled with the sheer volume of snow, it could be a “deadly situation”.

Blizzard warnings were in place from the southern state of North Carolina up to the northern state of Maine. 

New York’s JFK airport has suspended all flights and more than 46,000 are without electricity.

The National Weather Service (NWS) has warned that “Arctic air mass will remain entrenched over the eastern two-thirds of the country through the end of the week”.

The NWS added: “Very cold temperatures and dangerously cold wind chills expected.”

BDST: 1744 HRS, JAN 5, 2018
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