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To: long-gone who wrote (24735)	12/22/1998 5:56:00 PM
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60F today here in SC, tomorrow is a different story...Unlike Denver we are not equipped... Killer Cold Wave Covers Much Of United States 12:41 p.m. Dec 22, 1998 Eastern CHICAGO (Reuters) - A cold wave that has taken at least 19 lives spread across the continental United States Tuesday and forecasters warned the south and southeast to brace for what could be a major pre-Christmas ice storm. Temperatures were well below freezing from parts of the Pacific Northwest south to near the Mexican border and eastward through the southern Plains up to New England. The mercury sank to zero Fahrenheit -17.7C at Olympia, Washington Tuesday morning and was only five degrees higher near Portland, Oregon. It was 6 below zero Fahrenheit -21.1C in overnight in Minneapolis and 30 below zero Fahrenheit -34.4C at West Yellowstone, Montana. The Arctic cold was marching across the East Coast, chasing out weeks of unseasonal warmth. Forecasters said cold winds raking the warmer water of the Great Lakes would unleash locally heavy snows in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and New York. Since Sunday there have been at least 19 people killed in traffic accidents on icy roads -- 12 in Oklahoma, five in Kansas and two in Wisconsin. There were ice and snow warnings out Tuesday for an area stretching from northeast Texas and nearby Oklahoma into Tennessee. But Mike Palmerino, a forecaster for Weather Services Corp., said that same area of precipitation ''may expand across much of the southland Wednesday and Thursday. There's a potential for a major ice storm developing Wednesday and continuing Thursday.'' He said the area involved could run from Oklahoma ''right across Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, the northern portion of Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia right on to the western Carolinas and Virginia. You have a classic case of very cold air close to the ground and warm, humid air overrunning it.'' ''That spells real trouble for Christmas travelers throughout the Deep South,'' he said. ''Some of these ice accumulations could be heavy, causing power outages.'' Copyright 1998 Reuters Limited.