The Latest Breaking News on Blizzard sweeps the Plains, causing travel chaos and flight disruptions

Over 50 people have now died across America with a New York Governor declaring the city a "war zone" with plummeting temperatures and looting

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.

Buffalo worst affected with 27 deaths

Weather warnings for snow and ice have been handed down by the Met Office for Boxing Day just hours after the United Kingdom officially recorded a White Christmas

These look like stills from The Day After Tomorrow.

The deep freeze from a deadly winter storm that walloped much of the United States will continue into the week as people in western New York deal with massive snow drifts that snarled emergency vehicles and travelers across the country see cancelled flights and dangerous roads

Sun, surf and a touch of schadenfreude drew throngs of holiday merrymakers to Los Angeles-area beaches for Christmas, with temperatures touching 80 across Southern California as bitter cold and brutal storms battered most of the country.

An 'unprecedented' storm has left dozens dead across the United States and millions of others either without power or stranded in their homes on Christmas Day

The scope of the storm has been nearly unprecedented, stretching from the Great Lakes near Canada to the Rio Grande along the border with Mexico

Millions of Americans hunkered down to ride out the storm

Temperatures fell to as low as -40C in some areas