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A man was struck by a snowplow in the Classes were canceled on Wednesday and Thursday in many cities, including Chicago, home of the country’s third-largest school system, and police warned of the risk of accidents on icy highways.In a rare move, the US Postal Service appeared to temporarily set aside its credo that “neither snow nor rain … nor gloom of night” would stop its work: it halted deliveries from parts of the Dakotas through Ohio.Temperatures in Chicago dropped to a low of around -23F (-30C) on Wednesday, slightly above the city’s lowest-ever reading, from January 1985. It took less than 24 hours for a comedian's video about the crazy cold weather in Minnesota to go wildly viral. Share; … Featured Events are paid listings by users and receive priority placement on Patch, on our social pages and in our daily newsletters. The Unites States Postal Service has announced that it will National weather officials say record low temperatures are possible in the Twin Cities this week; the record for Wednesday is 30 below and the record for Thursday is 27 below.
Polar vortex 2019: Record cold grips the Midwest as Chicago River turns to ice . Kansas • Record low temperature:-40 … But if you think the coverage has been tunnel-vision so far, the Polar Vortex is now making its way east, ... Motorcyclist dies after striking deer on west-central MN highway.
Stream CBSN live or on demand for FREE on your TV, computer, tablet, or smartphone. By Adriana Diaz CBS News January 31, 2019, 6:35 PM.
That's where CBS News' DeMarco Morgan found dozens huddled in a train station-turned-warming center, including Steven Hicks who's homeless and has frostbite. Now whoever is outside is probably going to be outside," he said.Outside in the deadly deep freeze, that's claimed more than a dozen lives since Sunday, including an 18-year-year University of Iowa student Most of the Midwest will warm slightly as the polar air moves east toward New York City, where wind chills plunged below zero. The boat was rumbling beneath the ice. — NWS Twin Cities (@NWSTwinCities) February 1, 2019 There's good news if you're already missing subzero temperatures, however. In upstate New York the upper level of Niagara Falls is covered in ice, where rushing water is resisting the freeze, for now. As the polar vortex rips across the country, especially through the Midwest, it's a good idea to stay inside. 2019-01-30T16:26:43Z Deadly polar vortex blasts Midwest and Northeast with coldest air in decades — live updates By Peter Martinez, Alex Sundby, Justin Carissimo January 31, 2019 / 1:02 AM / CBS News Chicago is supposed to enter positive temperature territory on Thursday. Thousands of flights canceled, schools close, and post office halts deliveries as Chicago lows approach recordFrozen Arctic winds brought record-low temperatures across much of the US midwest on Wednesday, as a blast of Arctic air known as As of Wednesday evening, at least eight deaths were linked to the system, including an elderly Illinois man who was found several hours after he fell trying to get into his home and a University of Iowa student found behind an academic hall several hours before dawn.