Check out homes frozen by the massive 1:00 AM winter storm in the United States
(CNN) — A protracted winter storm that swept across the United States over the past week has brought heavy snow and blizzards to several parts of the country, while a large Arctic gust has pushed temperatures to dangerous levels across much of the country.
More than half of the US population spent the Christmas weekend amid signs of mild wind chills.
Brutal winter conditions buried communities under snow, knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of homes, closed freeways, hampered vacation travel, forced hundreds of rescue efforts and prompted declarations of states of emergency.
As it moved across the Great Lakes, the storm became a bomb cyclone, prompting warnings of snowstorms and winter weather conditions, as well as snowstorms. Heavy snow fell in New York state in particular, stranding even emergency vehicles and causing widespread power outages.
Here are some of the places that received the highest amounts of snow from the winter storm.
buffalo: 125 cm in three days
The city in western New York State received a total of 142 cm of snow this month. The last time Buffalo experienced that much snow in a month was December 2001, when 210 cm fell.
city on the water: 105 cm in three days
Another city in upstate New York, Watertown, was hit by lake-effect snow bands that created hazardous blizzard conditions.
Copenhagen: 76 cm in three days
Close to Watertown, Copenhagen, a city in Lewis County, was covered in snow. Driving conditions were so difficult that even snowplows struggled to get through the streets, CNN affiliate WWNY reported.
Sault Ste. Marie: 28 cm in one day
The Michigan area set a record for daily snowfall on Sunday when 11 inches were recorded. This number broke the previous record of 20 cm set on December 25, 1992.
big rapids: 27 cm in one day.
A record 11 inches of snow fell in Grand Rapids, Michigan on Sunday, breaking the previous record of 7.5 inches set in 1993.