Arctic cold takes hold of much of US
By Scott Reeves in New York | China Daily | Updated: 2019-02-01 07:35
Nearly 220 million people to endure below-freezing temperatures this week
One of the coldest air masses in decades kept its icy grip on the US Midwest on Wednesday, breaking temperature records, causing several deaths and forcing hundreds of schools and businesses to close.
Many temperatures in the Midwest fell below the high of-12 C on Wednesday in Fairbanks, Alaska, a city of 31,000 about 200 kilometers from the Arctic Circle.
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