Schools across the US are closing or issuing delays ahead of the freeze that's expected to affect roughly 70% of the US. Follow live updates:
A worker shovels snow from a sidewalk in Chicago on Monday. Scott Olson/Getty Images It's freezing across the US today — and the cold will continue. This Arctic plunge is very rare for this early in the season, with hundreds of records broken, some dating back more than a century.
Amarillo, Texas, dropped down to 7 degrees this morning —. Several other cities including Wichita and Indianapolis also broke 1911 records., Fahrenheit this morning, with readings as cold as -11 in northern Minnesota. Dramatic drops in temperatures have been reported over much the eastern half of the country. Yesterday,and still dropping.the most widespread, cold night of the current outbreak., warnings in the Deep South. The freezing temperatures will drop as far south as Texas and the Florida Panhandle.
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