Important Takeaways:

• Sixty-three million Americans are under blizzard warnings as the country braces for the coldest storm since 2011, which is set to bring travel chaos and deadly whiteouts.
• The National Weather Service has warned that Storm Blair will bring freezing conditions to 30 central and eastern states from Colorado to Massachusetts.
• Kansas City International Airport has already announced that no major airlines will be operating today after the region was deluged with snow and arctic wind chills.
• A state of emergency has also been declared in Kentucky, Virginia, Kansas, Arkansas and Missouri, where the current bone-chilling climes are a rarity.
• Wind chills of -20F and even colder have hit Kansas, where the average low temperature for January is 21F, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
• In Kentucky, temperatures are set to plummet to 2F, down from an average low of 26F, and in Virginia, where average lows are usually around 28F, the mercury is set to drop down to 13F.
• A whopping 72 percent of flights out of Kansas City International had been canceled by 10am Sunday, where ‘rapid ice accumulation’ forced officials to close the airfield.
• Meanwhile, icy weather has already sparked collisions on the roads, including in Kansas, according to state highway patrol trooper Ben Gardner.
• Weather experts have warned against traveling ‘unless necessary’ in states where blizzard warnings are in effect.
• The National Weather Service said travel ‘could be very difficult to impossible’, with snow whipped up by high winds creating a whiteout in the worst-hit areas.

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