Severe weather in parts of the South, Midwest and Northeast are expected to impact millions of people on New Year’s Day.  

According to AccuWeather, Atlanta, Birmingham and Nashville will experience heavy rainfall and damaging winds.  

“The main threat from these storms will be flash flooding and damaging winds, with an AccuWeather Local StormMax™ of 80 mph,” AccuWeather senior meteorologist Matt Rinde said.  

Parts of the South may get hit with thunderstorms and tornadoes, per Weather.com. That storm may cause snow in the Midwest and Northeast.  

Black people often fair worse when it comes to extreme weather or natural disasters. According to a CDC report, Black people have died at 1.87 times a higher rate than white people.  

The bad weather, as well as the fast-spreading omicron variant, has also forced U.S. airline carriers to cancel hundreds of flights, according to the New York Post.  

Delta Airlines and Alaska Air Group canceled over 1,000 flights within, in and out of the U.S. since Tuesday.  

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