The brutal polar air has made the Midwest frisson over the past few days spread to the East and the Deep South on Tuesday. The Southerners had to dig out winter coats, hat and gloves they almost never have to use.
According to the Marty Williams (a homeless man), “I didn’t think South got this cold”
The morning weather map shows that the Midwest and the East were colder than much of Antarctica. According to the Authorities report, “At least 21 people were death due to the wintriness in the country since Sunday, including seven people were killed due to Illinois and six were in Indiana and at least five people were died after collapsing while shoveling snow,”
In Missouri on Monday, a 1-year-old boy was killed due to struck in snow plow and a 20 year old woman was killed in a separate crash after her car slid on ice and into the path of a tractor-trailer.
According to the forecaster, “actually not all that unusual, all 50 states saw freezing temperature at some point Tuesday. That included Hawaii, where it was 18 degrees atop Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano,”
It was 1 degree in Reading, Pa., and 2 in Trenton, N.J. New York City plummeted to 4 degrees; the old record for the date was 6, set in 1896.
Farther south, Birmingham, Ala., dipped to a low of 7, four degrees colder than the old mark, set in 1970. Huntsville, Ala., dropped to 5, Nashville, Tenn., got down to 2, and Little Rock, Ark., fell to 9. Charlotte, N.C., reached 6 degrees, breaking the 12-degree record that had stood since 1884.
On Tuesday many of the schools and day care center closed due to the coldness. According to the Jack Weixel (director of energy analysis at Bentek Energy), “Natural gas demand in the U.S set a record Tuesday, eclipsing the mark set a day earlier,”
Polar Air Responsible For 21 Deaths
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