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U.S. NEWS Wednesday 13 november 2019

Record cold follows early snowstorm over much of eastern U.S.

By CAROLYN THOMPSON about the coldest we can recorded on Nov. 3, 1951.
Associated Press be this time of year (and) Farther north, heavy lake-
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Snow it could break records all effect snow piled more
and cold records fell as an over the region." than 10 inches high near
arctic airmass that started At least six cities in Kansas Goshen.
in Siberia spilled over a big set new record lows Tues- In Ohio, authorities investi-
chunk of the eastern half of day, led by Garden City, gated two fatal wrecks in
the U.S., including the nor- which dropped to minus 1 snowy and icy conditions
mally mild South, on Tues- (minus 18 Celsius), break- Tuesday, one on the Ohio
day. ing the record of 7 (minus Turnpike in Richfield and
The mid-autumn taste of 14 Celsius) set just last year. another in Clark County.
winter brought record sin- Records also fell in Wichita, Seven passengers on a
gle-digit temperatures to Salina, Russell, Dodge City New York City-bound bus
Chicago and environs; set and Medicine Lodge. escaped serious injury
snowfall records in Buffalo In St. Louis, the mercury when it turned on its side
and Detroit; dusted cars dipped to 11 degrees, on a snow-slicked highway
with snow in Memphis, Ten- breaking a record for the south of Syracuse. A sec-
nessee; and froze lakes in date that had stood since tion of Interstate 90 in Penn- Metra trains thunder through and over burning railroad tracks
Minnesota weeks earlier 1911. sylvania was back open set afire by railroad workers to heat up the switches and tracks
than usual. Warming shelters in Mem- Tuesday after being closed for the winter's frigid temperatures and to keep the trains mov-
Wisconsin farmer Bob phis offered relief from a overnight because of jack- ing along at 420 N. Artesian in Chicago, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019 .
Grove still has soybeans reading of 21 degrees (mi- knifed tractor-trailers.q Associated Press
in the field, 20 miles south nus 6 Celsius), also a record
of Milwaukee, but said he low for the date.
can't harvest them be- Schools and businesses as
cause the snow will clog far south as the Gulf Coast
the machinery. states opened late or
"Normally, you don't see this closed Tuesday because of
kind of weather to well into the unusual cold.
December," Grove said. "It's About 20 school systems
caught us off guard, as far delayed opening across
as getting crops harvested. north Alabama under the
Doing what we can in be- threat of wintry precipita-
tween snow, rain, mud." tion, including all the public
The roughly 10 inches of schools around Huntsville.
snow in Buffalo and Detroit Even more opened late or
by Tuesday morning was a closed in Tennessee, and
record depth for the time a handful of businesses
of year, weather service and schools opened late in
records show. Areas of Georgia.
Vermont and Maine saw Forecasters said daytime
similar totals as a wintry mix temperatures would re-
also closed or delayed hun- main in the 30s across a
dreds of schools in northern wide area of the South.
New England. Freeze warnings reached
"This is an air mass that's from eastern Texas to
more typical for the middle coastal South Carolina,
of January than mid-No- with overnight lows predict-
vember," National Weather ed in the 20s.
Service meteorologist Kevin The dip to 8 degrees (minus
Birk said in Chicago, where 13 Celsius) in Indianapolis
Tuesday morning's low of 7 gave the city its earliest re-
degrees (minus 13 Celsius) corded fall temperature in
broke the previous record the single digits. The clos-
of 8 (minus 13 Celsius), set est similar reading was 11
in 1986. "It is pretty much degrees (minus 11 Celsius)