NOAA/NWS - Dangerously cold wind chill temperatures as low as 45.6 degrees below zero (-50F) are expected in most of North Dakota, which remains under an 'extreme cold warning' along with large swaths of South Dakota and Minnesota
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Important Takeaways:
- Temperatures are predicted to dip as low as -42.7C (-45F) with wind chills down to 51 below Celsius (-60F) in northeastern Montana into Tuesday. Chicago alone could face temperatures between -28 and -34C (-20 to -30F) this week as a blizzard strikes the Windy City, according to USA Today.
- Dangerously cold wind chill temperatures as low as 45.6 degrees below zero (-50F) are expected in most of North Dakota, which remains under an ‘extreme cold warning’ along with large swaths of South Dakota and Minnesota. Meteorologist Ryan Maue warned on X that ‘your face will fall off at these temperatures.’
- Forecasters said several states would experience the 10th and coldest polar vortex event this season as weather forces in the Arctic are combining to push the chilly air that usually stays near the North Pole into the US and Europe.
- Winter storms pummeled the eastern US over the weekend, killing at least 10 people, including nine victims in Kentucky who died during flooding from heavy rains.
- Most of the deaths, including a mother and her seven-year-old child, were caused by cars getting stuck in high water.
- Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear that at least 1,000 people stranded by floods had to be rescued. President Donald Trump has approved the state’s request for a disaster declaration, authorizing the Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate relief efforts.
- In Alabama, the weather service in Birmingham said it had confirmed an EF-1 tornado touched down in Hale County.
- Storms there and elsewhere in the state destroyed or damaged a handful of mobile homes, downed trees and toppled power lines, but no injuries were immediately reported.
- A state of emergency was declared for parts of Obion County, Tennessee, after a levee failed on Saturday, flooding the small community of Rives, home to around 300 people in the western part of the state.
- Power outages were reported along much of the eastern seaboard, from New York south to Georgia.
- In West Virginia, 13 southern counties were under a state of emergency for flooding and some areas were cut off to vehicle traffic Sunday.
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