Snowplows clear accumulated snow at LaGuardia Airport in New York, US. Photo: Xinhua

　　A large-scale winter storm that has swept across multiple parts of the US since Friday at one point left more than 1 million users without electricity, with the severe cold already resulted in multiple deaths, latest data showed as of Sunday afternoon local time, reported local media.

　　According to PowerOutage.us, a website that tracks real-time power outages, about 1.07 million customers were without power as of 4 pm Eastern Time on Sunday. Southern states including Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, and Texas were among the hardest hit. Power outage rates in Tennessee and Mississippi exceeded 10 percent. The number of affected customers later fell to about 897,000.

　　NBC reported that 23 states, stretching from the southern US to the Northeast, have declared states of emergency.

　　Roughly 185 million people were under winter weather alerts on Sunday as dangerous cold gripped much of the central and eastern US. Wind chills in some areas plunged into minus 20s and minus 30s Fahrenheit, while temperatures were 10 to 40 degrees below average, according to CNBC.

　　Multiple media outlets, citing a meteorologist from the US National Weather Service, reported that as of Sunday morning, various winter weather warnings across the country covered approximately 213 million people.

　　Snowfall totals have already exceeded 8 inches in Arkansas, 11 inches in Illinois and Ohio, 13 inches in Indiana, 8 inches in Kansas, 12 inches in Missouri, 7 inches in Oklahoma, 6 inches in Texas, and 5 inches in Tennessee, according to ABC News.