elyu casino Cold Snap Is Forecast to Grip Much of the United States

Cold air seeped south of the Canadian border and into the United States on Friday, the start of what the National Weather Service is calling a “significant Arctic outbreak” that is expected to bring frigid conditions to large swaths of the country this weekend and last into mid-January.

While most of the cold was still in southern Canada on Friday, the United States was getting its first wave of it. Chilly air was spreading into the northern High Plains, across northeastern Montana, across northern North Dakota and into northwestern Minnesota, according to the Weather Prediction Center.

In parts of northern North Dakota, temperatures dropped to a bone-chilling minus 10 degrees, with wind chills making it feel like 20 to even 30 degrees below zero.

“It’s quite brutal,” said David Hamrick, a meteorologist with the Weather Prediction Center. “This is just the leading edge, the tip of the iceberg in terms of Arctic air mass coverage. The cold is coming down in waves”

Winter storms are also expected to follow in the wake of the plunging temperatures.

Temperatures are forecast to plummet below average for much of the nation, with the most severe cold gripping areas east of the Rocky Mountains and reaching as far south as the Gulf Coast and Florida. Dangerous wind chills are likely across many areas of the Southeast, too.

“This will likely be the most significant cold we have seen in years,” said forecasters at the National Weather Service office in Wakefield, Va., adding that the bout of below-normal temperatures “is likely to prevail into mid-January.”

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