[국제]’Desert land’ snow falls in Texas… cold wave after 30 years

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A record cold and blizzard hit the southern Texas state of the United States, triggering a winter storm warning.

After 30 years of cold wave, power outages and traffic accidents occurred everywhere, and the White House declared a federal emergency.

Reporter Chae Moon-seok on the press.

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Rare snow fell on the Alamo, a famous tourist destination in Texas, and a sandy desert fortress of the Texas Revolutionary War.

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An unusual winter storm warning in effect in Texas, USA.

A federal emergency was also declared as the temperature dropped from 2 degrees Celsius to -22 degrees Celsius in one day.

In the Texas capital Houston area, 3 million people stayed overnight in the dark due to a cold outage.

Nearby airports were also closed due to bad weather.

The highway was blocked one after another due to sudden snow.

The U.S. National Meteorological Administration predicts that there will be an average of 5 to 15 centimeters of snow accumulation throughout Texas, and 30 centimeters of heavy snowfall in some northern regions.

Known for its heatwaves and sandy deserts, Texas is covered in snow because of the Arctic cold.

Even in Europe, I suffered from severe cold.

In Greece, the cold front caused the temperature to drop by more than 20 degrees in three days, and snow fell in 12 years.

It snowed unusually in Istanbul, Turkey, where the average temperature is video.

In Poland, when the temperature drops drastically, the coastline, which would be covered with sand, is covered with snow and ice like the Arctic.

This is Moon-Seok Chae from YTN.

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