Nationwide Freeze: Rare Florida Snow and Iguanas Highlight Unseasonable Winter

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A sweeping cold wave grips the US, with about 150 million people under cold-weather advisories as a bomb cyclone brings heavy snow to the South and sends wind chills toward zero in places like Raleigh. Florida endures an unprecedented chill with rare snow and iguanas falling from trees, prompting relocation of thousands of the reptiles. Across the nation, weather-related outages and fatalities rise, including more than 110 deaths, roughly 80,000 customers without power in Tennessee and Mississippi, and 14 outdoor deaths in New York, while Punxsutawney Phil forecasts six more weeks of winter and Woodstock Willie hints at an early spring.
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