wintry 復習
米南部の沿岸地域から北東部にかけて、大寒波が襲っています。
Gulf Coast to Northeast being hit with wintry mix of snow, ice
The entire Gulf Coast region was paralyzed on Wednesday morning with hundreds of schools and flights cancelled and interstates shut down.
A state of emergency has already been declared in North Carolina, Georgia and Alabama due to the winter weather moving through the region. Schools in at least 10 states, including major cities like Houston, Philadelphia and Boston were either cancelled or delayed.
Alabama went to the extreme step of cancelling classes for every public school in the state -- about 727,000 students -- on Wednesday.
Hundreds of accidents were reported Tuesday in the Houston area as the storm began to move through.
Storm alerts have been issued from the Gulf Coast to the Northeast, with even a freeze watch for usually warm central Florida.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/gulf-coast-northeast-hit-wintry-mix-snow-ice/story?id=52400239
取り上げる単語は"wintry"です。『ジーニアス英和辞典』第４版（大修館）で調べてみると、「冬の、冬らしい、寒い、冷たい」や「冷淡な、わびしい」とあり、"winter"の派生語であることが分かります。LDOCEでは、" cold or typical of winter"と定義されています。雪と氷の混じった寒さに襲われている様子が現れています。この寒波の影響で学校が休校になったり、空港が閉鎖されるなどしています。(Akim)
