Chicago will feel colder than Antarctica this week as winter freeze set to hit 250 million across US
Chicago authorities ordered the schools in the city to be shut Wednesday due to freezing temperatures in the area, which according to AccuWeather meteorologist Elliot Abrams could make it feel like minus 50 to 60. Those temperatures will reportedly be colder than Antartica. "It's never been -50 in Chicago so we can't really say it 'feels like' - nobody really knows what that feels like," Abrams said. "But you can get frostbite within four or five minutes." Reports stated Minneapolis is forecast to reach minus 54 Wednesday morning too.
As a winter freeze sweeps the United States this week, parts of New York are bracing for up to four feet of snow and parts of the Midwest and East are set to be overwhelmed by the polar vortex swooping down from the North Pole, USA Today reported.