"Travel will be very difficult to impossible at times with deep snow cover on roads," the advisory said. "Widespread blowing snow will reduce visibility to near zero." Iowa, site of Monday caucuses, set temperature records Sunday. Des Moines International Airport recorded minus 18 degrees at 7:30 a.m., the lowest Jan. 14 temperature since 1888. Coldest since January 2019's minus 20.
Northern Florida will have daytime highs near 70 degrees on Monday and upper 40s by Wednesday. AccuWeather predicted freezing overnight in the northern section of the state. Freezing Michigan temps Southern Michigan may experience up to an inch of snow after the catastrophic storm that pounded the state over the weekend. Heavy snowfall, severe gusts, and thundersnow have hit the state since Friday. Ice from snow and cold temperatures made roads dangerous. From Friday afternoon to Saturday, the storm brought perilous conditions and hundreds of power disruptions to Michigan.
After numerous weekend crashes, the Michigan Department of Transportation and Michigan State Police cleared roadways. Near-whiteout conditions and limited visibility from strong lake bands in northern Michigan make highways dangerous. Authorities recommend bringing an emergency kit and charged phone. In Iowa Caucuses 2024, Trump, Haley, and other GOP candidates care about race.
Heroic IA firefighters help laboring woman Marshall County, Iowa, deputies and emergency responders helped a mother give delivery early Sunday in the cold. Sheriff's deputies reported a laboring woman calling for help before midnight. Deputies drove a half-mile to the woman's home in a blizzard because the route was impassable. The Clemons Fire Department tractor-cleared an ambulance passage. After giving birth at 12:38 a.m., officers took the woman and her child to Unity Point Health. Trump unconcerned about Iowa Caucuses weather On Sunday, former President Donald Trump visited with Des Moines campaign volunteers before a rally in Indianola, 20 miles south. Trump was 28 points ahead in a Saturday night Iowa Poll for the Republican Caucuses.
Most probable coldest Iowa Caucus. At the 1972 Iowa Caucus, wind chills were 26 degrees below zero. Up to 25 deg. Monday is expected to be -3. “We seem to have a lot of good enthusiasm,” Trump stated. "I don't know, maybe the weather is not going to be that big a deal." A winter storm knocked out electricity to over 170,000 Oregon and southwestern Washington homes and businesses early Sunday. Temperatures dropped into the teens when power companies restored heat and light. Strong winds above 80 mph toppled trees and powerlines, worsening the problem.
Portland Bureau of Environmental Services claims it conducted emergency repairs and halted sewage from entering homes and businesses 24/7. Portland's downtown and inner city main sewage pumps partially operated due to a frozen pipe. "We need you to stay home as conditions remain dangerous for several days," Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler tweeted Saturday. Please verify neighbors if possible. The community must last."
For state and nonprofit life safety resource sharing, Oregon DEM activated its Emergency Coordination Center. The government advocated remaining home, planning, being informed, and having an emergency pack. Iowa won't heat. Des Moines' maximum temperature was expected to reach -9, close to the January 1912 record of -14. Wind chill may be -40 today. It won't be immediate. Sunday night's forecast was -17. The Iowa Caucuses and Martin Luther King Jr. holiday were expected to feature minus 5 degree highs on Monday. The forecast is minus 11 degrees and minus 30 wind chill Monday night.
A 2007 study found that rain in Florida aided Republican George W. Bush in 2000 and good weather in competitive states helped Democrat John F. Kennedy in 1960. Caucuses are primaries, not party contests.