US weather: Americans told 'not to breathe deeply or talk' outside as 'deadly' polar vortex causes temperatures to plummet
The US is experiencing some of the coldest weather in decades
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Your support makes all the difference.Parts of America are facing temperatures colder than Antarctica this week, as a cold front sweeps through the upper midwest.
US officials are urging residents from northern states to stay inside as the deep freeze sets in across the county, bringing with it life-threatening conditions.
A blast of Arctic air from the polar vortex is causing temperatures to drop as low as -40C (-40F), and in some cases even colder.
Read below for our coverage of the weather on Wednesday, as it happened
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Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the extreme weather parts of the United States are currently experiencing.
With dangerously low temperatures comes with beauty. Here's a shot from outside of downtown Chicago.
With the polar vortex keeping workers at home, the US Postal Service has announced a rare disruption.
Parts of 10 states will not be getting mail as the cold front moves through, a break from the agency's promise that no weather will keep it from delivering mail to Americans.
Chicago is getting so cold from the polar vortex that workers are literally setting train tracks on fire to keep them from freezing up so badly that trains cannot use them.
Conditions in the American midwest are so cold that officials have warned against breathing too deeply outside, or even talking much while outside.
It could be, for some generations in the midwest, the first time that this amount of cold has been felt, AccuWeater meteorologist Mike Doll told USA Today:
“Some locations in the Midwest will be below zero continuously for 48-72 hours,” he said
But the worst is yet to come, Doll said. “I cannot stress how dangerously cold it will be,” he said. “An entire generation has gone by without experiencing this type of cold.”
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