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Five people died in the US due to record cold weather

On Wednesday, a large-scale winter storm, which has already led to the death of at least five people, will sharply intensify. Weather forecasters predict that weather conditions may be the coldest in the past few decades.

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On Tuesday evening, the National Weather Service said that this winter storm, spreading in the north of the country, is "one of the coldest invasions of Arctic air masses in the US in recent times," writes NBC.

Meteorologists have warned that very cold dangerous winds will spread over most of the eastern seaboard of the States, "probably leading to widespread record temperature minima." In the Midwest, air temperatures can drop to -20 degrees Fahrenheit (-28 degrees Celsius).

Severe weather conditions caused at least five deaths:

  • An 82-year-old man died Tuesday afternoon due to hypothermia near his home in Beijing, Illinois.
  • Another man died from hypothermia in a garage near his home in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.
  • A man died on Monday morning in Libertyville, Illinois after being hit by a city snow blower at the end of a driveway to his house. The driver of the snowplow was suspended from work for the period of investigation.
  • An 31-year-old man died on Monday after losing control of his car on an icy road in Iowa.
  • A 9-year-old boy from Nebraska died on Sunday when the car in which he was driving off the road on I-80 in Cass County. Five other people in the car were injured.

Nearly 1000 flights scheduled for Wednesday were canceled at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Another 320 flights were canceled at another airport in the region, Midway.

The Amtrak transport company stated that all trains going to and from Chicago on Wednesday were also canceled.

According to weather forecasters, on Wednesday, low temperatures will cover most of the US East and Midwest, where up to 75 millions of Americans live. By the evening of Wednesday, 85% of the US territory and 230 of millions of Americans are facing negative temperatures (0 Fahrenheit is -17 degrees Celsius).

Record low temperatures were predicted for many areas of the Midwest: Rochester, Minnesota, is forecast to reach 31 degrees below zero Fahrenheit (-35 Celsius) this coming night; Milwaukee minus 28 degrees (-33 Celsius); Des Moines, Iowa - minus 21 (-29 Celsius).

For many cities, these are record lows for the period from the 1994 of the year.

The US Postal Service said it would suspend the delivery of letters and parcels on Wednesday in Minnesota, western Wisconsin, Iowa and western Illinois.

For emergency personnel, such conditions are life threatening, but are part of the work, so they will continue to fulfill their responsibilities.

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