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Winter already? Snow, deep freeze from Rockies to East Coast

CHICAGO (AP) — An arc- a weather system that
tic air mass that brought pushed frigid air from Sibe-
snow and ice to an area ria across an area stretch-
stretching from the Rocky ing from the Rocky Moun-
Mountains to northern tains to the East Coast.
New England on Monday Temperatures below freez-
was poised to give way to ing were forecast as far
record-breaking cold tem- south as Texas' Gulf Coast.
peratures. "This is an air mass that's
In mid-Michigan, three more typical for the mid-
people were killed in a dle of January than mid-
two-vehicle crash that November," said National
the Eaton County sheriff's Weather Service meteorol-
department attributed ogist Kevin Birk. "It is pretty
to heavy snowfall. And in much about the coldest
Kansas, the highway patrol we can be this time of year
reported that a truck lost (and) it could break re-
control on an icy highway cords all over the region."
and slammed head-on Winter doesn't officially
into another truck, killing an start until December 22 this
8-year-old girl in the other year.
vehicle. According to Birk, the lows
In Chicago, where as much on Tuesday could drop
as 6 inches (15 centime- into the single digits or low A woman walking the half mile from the Chicago Aquarium to the Adler Planetarium braces in a
ters) of snow fell, an Envoy teens in Illinois, Wisconsin stiff wind and blowing snow off Lake Michigan, Monday, Nov. 11, 2019, in Chicago.
Associated Press
Air flight from Greensboro, and Iowa, with highs climb-
North Carolina, slid off an ing no further than the low
icy runway at O'Hare Inter- 20s. The forecast high of
national Airport as it tried 21 degrees (-6 Celsius) for
to land at about 7:45 a.m. Chicago would be a full
None of the 38 passengers seven degrees lower than
and three crew members the previous record set for
were injured, according to Nov. 12.
the city's aviation depart- In some areas, tempera-
ment. tures plunged quickly.
Snowfall totals could reach Temperatures in Denver
up to a foot or more in climbed past 70 degrees
some areas of Indiana, (21 Celsius) over the week-
Michigan and Vermont, end only to fall to 14 de-
according to the National grees (-10 Celsius) early
Weather Service. Monday.
Other places in the path of One area where the low
the air mass saw ice and temperatures was particu-
rain. larly concerning was in
Denver saw just a few inch- central Wyoming, where
es of snow but suffered nu- officials were searching for
merous accidents on icy a 16-year-old autistic boy
roadways because the who went missing wearing
snow fell during the morn- only his pajamas on Sun-
ing commute. day, prompting a search
More than 950 flights were that included certified hu-
canceled at Chicago's man trackers, helicopters,
airports and officials in the dogs, and planes.
area opened warming The National Weather Ser-
centers. In Michigan, some vice said areas west of the
schools closed early, as did Rocky Mountains would be
dozens of schools in the St. spared the arctic air, with
Louis area. above average tempera-
The snow and ice was tures expected in some of
just the first punch from those places.q