UK: Queue nurse will help tackle delays - Portsmouth Today

Paramedics have had to remain with their patients for up to an hour at Queen Alexandra Hospital, Cosham, as A&E struggles to deal with a rise in illnesses brought on by the cold weather.

For homeless in Lawton, it's a cold, hard life | Oklahoma

LAWTON — Where did you sleep Sunday night when an arctic cold front swept into Oklahoma? Mitchell Rea slept in a drainage tunnel beneath a cement bridge.

Rea, 36, is one of hundreds of homeless people who roam the streets of Lawton. By Monday, the miserable weather had driven him to seek refuge at The Salvation Army shelter west of downtown.

On Tuesday, as the cold snap continued, Lawton police found a homeless woman — Sylvia Rose Bosin — dead inside an abandoned home with no electricity, running water or heat source.

A police report stated she appeared to have died from "the cold weather.”

Tahoe weather: Freezing temperatures set records around Lake Tahoe | SierraSun.com

LAKE TAHOE — A winter storm for the Truckee area and Lake Tahoe Basin is expected today into Friday morning bringing at least 1 to 2 feet of snow to the region, the National Weather Service in Reno reports.

The latest storm is part of a much larger system of arctic cold air that has gripped much of the Golden State and Nevada, with temperatures staying below freezing in the Sierra since Saturday.

Early Wednesday morning was one for the record books at South Lake Tahoe with 11 below zero reported at the Lake Tahoe Airport. The record was 10 below zero on Dec. 17, 1984.

FOXNews.com - Frigid Storm Closes California Freeways, Drops Snow in Malibu

Calen Weiss, 19, of Tarzana, his brother and two friends wanted to go snowboarding at Big Bear in the San Bernardino Mountains but instead got stuck on I-15 in Cajon Pass for an hour as visibility fell to about 40 yards.

"It looks like Whoville, all snowy, but with less joy and more extreme misery," he said by phone from the Summit Inn.
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More severe cold was on the way, the National Weather Service said.

Freeze warnings were issued for late Wednesday through Thursday morning for the Sacramento Valley, the northern San Joaquin Valley and the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta region, among others.

"A freeze warning means subfreezing temperatures are imminent or highly likely. These conditions will kill crops and other sensitive vegetation," the NWS said.