Extreme Cold Sweeps Across the Nation: What You Can Anticipate

Extreme Cold Sweeps Across the Nation

This morning, an arctic blast is sweeping the country. More than 100 million americans waking up to bitter cold when it's like this, right? And it's common.

It's just falling down. It's fine, feels good. But when you feel that wind, it feels really, I felt like my jaw was freezing.

It was very cold in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Today is expected to be the seventh straight day of snow. The frigid punch also hitting millions with bone chilling temperatures, making the job even harder for first responders in Oregon. Officials say a woman was killed in an RV fire after a

tree fell on the vehicle. First responders finding some roads impassable and a fire hydrant believed to be likely frozen. Much of the country could dip 20 to 45 degrees below average today, including parts of texas where cold weather has overwhelmed the power grid in recent years. You lose power,

you lose heat, then you risk your pipes freezing. So yeah, we might have to look into installing a generator just in case for those braving the cold. Getting around has been a mess. Hundreds of flights canceled because of the storms stranding passengers. Even Amtrak also canceling some trains and

driving has been treacherous to with icy roads and blinding snow. Officials say this colorado highway was hit by an avalanche. It's came out of nowhere. Unfortunately, the travel troubles are not behind us yet. According to flight tracker flight aware today alone, U. S. Airports are seeing more than 1500

cancellations. You can see once again they are clearing the streets here in Grand Rapids. Peter, you can see the love statue behind you, but nobody is loving these temperatures these days. Jesse curse in Grand Rapids. Jesse, thank you. The warm, fuzzy feelings are all inside from the love statue

there. Dylan, what do you got? Yeah, they're not outside. That's for sure. It is going to be brutally cold. We talked about the cold in Iowa. Let's just look at some of the numbers here in Sioux City. The wind chill right now is 32 degrees below zero for dodge.

It's 30 degrees below zero, and this is going to be the dangerous cold that is going to stay in place. And it's not just in the Midwest. This extends all the way down into texas. So we have wind chill advisories, watches warnings all in effect for 105 million people

and taking a look at some of the cold temperatures that we're going to see Des Moines again, 30 degrees below zero. Chicago feels like 26 below Nashville feels like zero where we've already had more snow on the ground in Nashville than we have in Philly, D. C. New York

City and temperatures are going to stay on the cold side. Chicago, a high on monday of only or today of one below zero. That's the actual air temperature. Tomorrow we get up to one Wednesday is a little bit better, 17 degrees, and then we're going to continue with some

cold temperatures as we finish off the week in a buffalo will stay in the lower twenties with that lake affects snow and it is going to just remain brutally cold. But this sets the stage for some snow that's going to make its way into the northeast. Peter. All right,