{"id":153355,"date":"2022-12-21T13:22:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T19:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/bomb-cyclone-storm-to-bring-life-threatening-cold-to-us-millions-under-alert"},"modified":"2022-12-21T13:22:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T19:22:43","slug":"bomb-cyclone-storm-to-bring-life-threatening-cold-to-us-millions-under-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/bomb-cyclone-storm-to-bring-life-threatening-cold-to-us-millions-under-alert","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bomb cyclone\u2019 storm to bring \u2018life-threatening\u2019 cold to US, millions under alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bomb-cyclone-storm-to-bring-life-threatening-cold-to-us-millions-under-alert.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Millions of Americans are under critical weather alerts as <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/20\/bomb-cyclone-expected-to-hit-us-prompting-airlines-to-issue-travel-waivers\/\">a major winter storm<\/a> is set to bring \u201clife-threatening\u201d cold temperatures and powerful winds to large swaths of the nation \u2014 with the mercury expected to drop as low as minus 20 degrees across the Midwest and Great Lakes.<\/p>\n<p>More than 80 million Americans \u2014 spanning from coast to coast \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/20\/wind-chills-as-low-as-40-to-60-as-dangerous-blast-of-arctic-air-to-tighten-its-grip-on-large-part-of-u-s\/\">are under various forms of wind chill alerts<\/a>, according to FOX Weather meteorologist Christopher Tate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could see wind gusts of 40 to 50 mph,\u201d he told The Post on Wednesday. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t be surprised if we see an occasional gust of 60 along the coast.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of Americans are under critical weather alerts as a major winter storm is set to bring \u201clife-threatening\u201d cold temperatures and powerful winds to large swaths of the nation \u2014 with the mercury expected to drop as low as minus 20 degrees across the Midwest and Great Lakes. More than 80 million Americans \u2014 spanning [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}