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Winter storm moves into Florida and the Carolinas after dropping record-breaking snow in New Orleans

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72% Informative

Heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain reaches into the Deep South as a blast of Arctic air plunges much of the Midwest and the eastern U.S. Hundreds of flights are canceled or switched to remote learning for more than a million students.

The storm dropped up to 5 inches ( 13 centimeters ) of snow just inland and covered in white the sand from Hilton Head Island to the giant Ferris wheel.

More than 1,300 flights to, from or within the U.S. were already canceled Wednesday morning .

Mobile, Alabama , hit 5.4 inches of snow Tuesday , topping the city’s one-day snowfall record of 5 inches .

More than 132,000 customers were without power across the region Friday morning , according to the NWS .

VR Score

82

Informative language

87

Neutral language

41

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

51

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

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Time-value

short-lived

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