United States weather of 2007

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This is an article on the weather of the United States in 2007. No significant weather has so far occurred this year, although the central Plains area is recovering from a major blizzard and icestorm.

1 January
2 References
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] January

Drought currently stretches from the Canadian border south to Nebraska, and also from southeastern Kansas south to the Mexican border. It is also present in much of Arizona and in northeastern Texas. Interior Texas and northern Oklahoma are seeing areas of extreme to exceptional drought, with a wide swath of extreme drought also existing present in Wyoming and adjacent areas of South Dakota and Nebraska, as well as in northern Minnesota.
January 12 to 16 – A major ice storm is currently pounding areas from central Oklahoma northeastward into central Illinois, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of people and killing at least 7. Up to 1 inch of ice has accumulated in some areas, with more to come. Airports in such cities as Oklahoma City, Kansas City, and St. Louis have seen significant delays, and Amtrak service throughout Missouri has been cancelled due to trees falling on the tracks.^[1]