The Paraguayan ambassador in New York, Carlos Alberto Ortiz, reported that currently they are at -7 degrees, however at Christmas they were at -15 and with strong gusts of wind.
“Upstate New York if there is a polar bomb hitting the town. Where we are and the compatriots are more concentrated, in Manhattan, we have not yet had snow,” Ortiz said in a conversation with Universo 970 AM from Nación Media.
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He added that what is being experienced “It’s something never seen for 30 years.” “A few days ago a kind of water-ice fell, which is more dangerous,” he said.
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The worst winter storm of the century in the United States so far, it has already claimed the lives of at least 49 people and caused transport to collapse on Christmas weekend.
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