As per the National Weather Service, a deep freeze is forecast to hit the U.S. Midwest this week. It will bring snow, record cold temperatures and potentially life-threatening wind chill across northern Illinois and northwest Indiana by midweek.
The ‘coldest air mass in years’ will hit the Chicago region on Tuesday. The extreme cold will last through the Friday. It could be dangerously cold.
Frigid temperatures were already affecting parts of northern Minnesota and northern Wisconsin. The mercury dipped to minus 44 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 42 Celsius) in International Falls, Minnesota, on Sunday morning, breaking the previous record by 8 degrees.
Dangerous, life-threatening cold air will impact Iowa from Tuesday morning through Friday morning, with wind chill values on Wednesday likely to range from minus 45 Fahrenheit to minus 55 Fahrenheit across the northern part of the state.
The cold front is expected to hit parts of the U.S Northeast as well with freezing temperatures, not as severe. The snow is forecast in New York, Washington D.C., Pennsylvania and New England.
Potential snowfalls are expected in Northern Mississippi, northern Alabama and parts of Kentucky and Tennessee during the week.
