Most dangerous temps in decades push across US
Source: AP-Excite
By STEVE KARNOWSKI and RICK CALLAHAN
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The coldest, most dangerous blast of polar air in decades gripped the Midwest and pushed toward the East and South on Monday, closing schools and day care centers, grounding flights and forcing people to pull their hoods and scarves tight to protect exposed skin from nearly instant frostbite.
Many across the nation's midsection went into virtual hibernation, while others dared to venture out in temperatures that plunged well below zero.
"I'm going to try to make it two blocks without turning into crying man," said Brooks Grace, who was bundling up to do some banking and shopping in downtown Minneapolis, where temperatures reached 23 below, with wind chills of minus 48. "It's not cold - it's painful."
The mercury also dropped into negative territory in Milwaukee, St. Louis and Chicago, which set a record for the date at minus 16. Wind chills across the region were 40 below and colder. Records also fell in Oklahoma, Texas and Indiana.
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Commuters arrive at the La Salle Street commuter rail station as they experience temperatures well below zero and wind chills expected to reach 40 to 50 below, Monday, Jan. 6, 2014, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Massive winds outside are making the dog and cats quite unhappy.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)cvoogt
(949 posts)trekking across the land, checking grammar and .. oh wait, temperatures. Damn you, abbreviation!
onehandle
(51,122 posts)He will not like that.
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)My little Chihuahua is used to going for a walk every day, but with the weather in the 20s and 30s, she has not been out. I have plenty of pee pads that she knows how to use. And tomorrow will be another day she stays inside because the temps are going to be in the teens.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)He stepped three feet outside, did his thing, and dragged me back in.
He's not stupid.
17 degrees right now. It'll be 5 or less when my wife walks him tomorrow morning.
She'll bundle him up.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)CANDO
(2,068 posts)I heard it this evening along with diatribes against Al Gore.
groundloop
(11,521 posts)Never mind the fact that it's going to be well into the 60's here this weekend. It was 5 degrees this morning where I live in Georgia, we haven't had temperatures this cold in many years, but it used to get this cold in winter semi-regularly. And as far as GLOBAL climate, I see that temperatures in parts of Australia are into the 120's.
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)Puzzledtraveller
(5,937 posts)anasv
(225 posts)Lugnut
(9,791 posts)The wind sounds like a typhoon outside. It's cold!
meow2u3
(24,768 posts)Wind chill of -21. The wind is so bad that it's blowing off the insulation from the window. Brrrr!
tofuandbeer
(1,314 posts)I'm in Southern California, where we're embarking on a horrible drought. Everyone's enjoying the warmer than usual temps (except me, I like the cooler weather), but boy are we going to be paying for it this summer (unless we get a deluge of rain). Again, keep safe and warm!
JesterCS
(1,827 posts)Sognefjord
(229 posts)No problem starting the Prius. I went about my normal business and also got to the library and the dry cleaners. I have to tend to my mail and shipping but no problem I did not see many walkers however and the schools were all closed. Tomorrow all will be back to higher temperatures. Iowans are not as tough about this stuff than we ex-Minnesotans.
JesterCS
(1,827 posts)Wind chill is about -15 to -20. It's bitter =( and I have to smoke outside