Near hurricane-strength winds blasted parts of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands as the remnants of Typhoon Nuri moved through the remote region hundreds of miles from the mainland. Sustained winds of 70mph and gusts up to 96mph were recorded on Friday morning on Shemya Island, where 120 people had locked themselves indoors to wait out the storm.
The brunt of the storm is expected to pass into the Bering Sea and lose strength, but forecasters warned it will still push unseasonably frigid air into much of the US next week.
The system is expected to freeze much of the lower 48 states, forecaster Bruce Sullivan said. Snow also is coming to areas including the northern Rockies and northern Plains.
In Great Falls, Montana, the high temperature is predicted to be 17F on Tuesday, compared with the normal high of 43F, Sullivan said. The forecast for Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is a high of 25F, which is about 20F below normal. High temperatures in Minneapolis will only reach the upper 20s.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/08/alaska-aleutian-islands-wind-cold
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