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Dangerous record breaking cold to start this First Alert Day
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – After breaking a record low and record cold high on Monday, we’re starting Tuesday with a record low once again. We have fallen to -20° as of 5am and still have room to drop. records(WOWT) Wind chills as cold as -45° are possible early this morning before warming a bit into …
Planned outages, frozen pipes, energy conservation
As temperatures plummeted to record-breaking lows Monday, the Omaha Public Power District said it got an emergency order from Southwest Power Pool to implement planned outages. “We have never been in this kind of situation,” OPPD President and CEO Tim Burke said. Southwest Power Pool manages the grid for OPPD, NPPD, LES in Lincoln and …
Record-breaking cold in Ely, Minnesota – and Texas
The first-ever wind chill warnings have been issued for Texas. Texas just isn’t south enough, this time around, to escape old man winter. Arctic air plunges as far south as Houston after several inches of snow fell through north Texas over the weekend. The storm produced 6 inches of snowfall in Oklahoma City, with drifts …
Expert weighs-in on cold related injuries with record-breaking cold incoming | FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV
SHAWNEE, Kan. — When temperatures and wind chills dip below freezing, people who spend time outside can get into medical trouble in a matter of minutes. Emergency rooms around the metro are seeing more patients with frostbite and hypothermia. Dr. Bradley Chapman is an Emergency Medical Physician at the ER of Shawnee. “Being out there …
Record Breaking Cold, Extreme Wind Chills Expected Through Tuesday | KNIA KRLS Radio
Extreme wind chills and record-breaking cold temperatures are expected through Tuesday morning in south central Iowa. Dangerous, arctic air has settled into the region, and will stay in place this weekend. Wind chill values between 15 and 30 below zero are expected to continue during all hours of the day until Tuesday morning. In those …
Polar vortex brings in 6 record-breaking temperatures to Sask., bitter cold here to stay
A polar vortex continues to bring bitter cold to Saskatchewan, which will remain until next week. On Sunday, the cold air mass set new daily temperature records in parts of northern Saskatchewan. The coldest temperature was recorded in Uranium City where it was – 48.9 C, breaking a previous record of – 40 set in …
Midstate Mysteries: New DNA technology may help track down a killer in 1987 Nashville cold case | News
NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) – New DNA technology may help track down a cold case killer from more than thirty years ago. The focus of the murder investigation centers on cigarette butts from the 1980s. The Kroger where the deadly shooting happened is still there. A woman by the name of Carolyn Phillips finished up her …
CAP’s emergency shelter offering more than break from cold | Social Services
Community Action Partnership’s emergency shelter aims to be more than just a place for homeless individuals to get out of the cold. Staff there also are working to help those visiting move their lives forward. Rachael Bittiker, public affairs and community development director at CAP oversees the shelter, and she said services are set to …
Detectives Hope New Technology Can Break Cold Case That Inspired ‘Amber Alerts’ – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
Jan. 13 marks 25 years since 9-year-old Amber Hagerman was kidnapped and killed in Arlington, inspiring the nationwide Amber Alert system for missing and endangered children. Police still working the case decades later announced plans Wednesday to submit items of evidence originally obtained in the investigation to new forensic testing that may yield a more …
Libertine demonstrates technology to help heavy-duty vehicles go ‘fossil free’, enables improved cold start with bioethanol
Libertine FPE (“Libertine”), the creator of Smart Engine technology for hybrid electric vehicles and distributed power generation, has demonstrated technology that could help leading truck manufacturers to fulfill pledges to make all heavy-duty vehicles fossil free by 2040. With Libertine’s technology, hybrid heavy-duty powertrains using a combination of renewable grid power and renewable bioethanol fuel …
