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A mammoth winter storm is bearing down on much of the U.S.
Tens of millions of people are under winter storm warnings.
National Weather Service meteorologist Frank Pereira says these warnings reach from Albuquerque,
New Mexico, across the U.S., to western Pennsylvania.
Perhaps even up to half the U.S.
population will be impacted by this storm,
which is going to develop later today over parts of the U.S.
Central and southern Rockies into the plains is going to gradually work its way further to the east,
bringing a widespread swap of heavy snow all the way from the southern central Rockies eastward to eventually New England by this weekend.
He says right after the storm passes, Arctic cold will settle on much of the same area.
Snow and ice won't be able to melt.
People who are in the dark might not get their power back for a while.
Temperatures will be dangerously cold for days.
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