Arctic air was expected to keep its grip on the nation’s midsection on Friday morning, a day after the minus 8 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 22 Celsius) measured in Chicago broke the low temperature record of minus 7 degrees for the day set in 1936, said National Weather Service meteorologist Bob Oravec.
Chicago public schools, serving 396,000 students in the third largest US school district, canceled classes on Thursday and many commuters there were bundled so heavily that only their eyes could be seen. But not everyone hates the weather. Teejay Riedl, 54, was filming the steam rising from the Chicago River before work.
“I love it. It’s crisp, it’s clean, there are no bugs,” he said.
Farther north, Sarah Applin, who works for Travel Market Vacations in the Milwaukee area, has seen a surge in business.
Bitter cold was headed east, meaning a frosty Friday morning commute was in store for East Coast residents from Boston down to Richmond, Virginia, Oravec said. More records are expected to fall. With temperatures in Washington DC forecast to reach 3 F (-19 C) overnight, schools and local governments across the region were closed or opening with delays on Thursday.
It has been cold enough in New York this week to bring the roaring Niagara Falls to a halt, as parts of the waterfall trio on the Canadian border froze over, leaving long spears of ice cascading down from the falls’ edges and glacier-like mounds rising up from their plunge pools. — Reuters
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