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The connection between weather and climate change has never been clearer. And simultaneous extremes, such as hot and dry weather together, are particularly dangerous.

The Natural History Museum in London has digitized its collection of Wilson Bentley snow crystal photographs.Bentley was a farmer in Jericho who developed a method of photographing snow crystals using a camera and a microscope he set up inside his barn.

The National Guard is conducting door-to-door wellness checks in neighborhoods that lost power as authorities search for more casualties.

The city in western New York was among the hardest hit by snow and cold. At least 31 people in Erie County were killed because of the storm as of Tuesday evening, according to the health department.

More than half the deaths occurred in western New York, which struggled with super-size snow drifts that snarled emergency vehicles. Buffalo's responders rescued hundreds trapped in cars.

The frigid Christmas storm has killed at least 24 people across the country, trapping some residents inside homes with snow drifts, and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of homes.

Today on Vermont Edition, we'll talk through what you need to know about the massive weather event moving through our area.

At a press conference Friday, state officials warned Vermonters to take this storm seriously, and to get off the roads by 4 p.m. to avoid the coming "flash freeze."

Nationwide, thousands of flights were canceled or delayed. In some places, temperatures dropped more than 30 degrees in an hour. Wind chills reached well below zero. Inches of snow fell.

Just as travel returns to pre-pandemic levels, an arctic front in the Midwest and and record-breaking cold temperatures along the Gulf Coast and in the Eastern U.S. could bring dangerous conditions.