Polar Vortex will leave 75% of the United States with sub-zero temperatures

Some 220 million people will experience sub-zero temperatures this week in the United States, because of a Arctic cold blast that will mainly affect the center and north-east of the countrybut that could cause Snowfall as far south as Mississippi and Alabama. According to the National Meteorological Service (NWS), 75% of the country will experience such an extreme climate that "dangerous or impossible travel conditions" will occur.

Between Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning, the The polar wave will bring the temperature in Chicago to less than -30 ° C. "A whole generation has lived without having that kind of cold in the Chicago area," said Mike Doll, Senior Meteorologist at AccuWeather. It could be like that break the city's -32 ° C record. This climate would remain until Friday.

"It's a dangerous cold and deadly"added Richard Bann, a meteorologist at the NWS Climate Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland. "The exposed skin loses heat at full speed, without you noticing it." L & # 39; agency alerted the public to take action against hypothermiaThis happens when the body loses heat faster than it can produce it.

The terrible cold has already caused a casualty in Iowa: Corey Brown, a 13-year-old boy, died in Marshalltown after escaping from his home after an argument with his family over the use of the cell phone, in the midst of a snowstorm .

Around Thursday temperatures could reach -40 ° C in the center of the country and in the Great Lakes region, Dave Hennen, CNN's esteemed meteorologist, with winds that will feel like -50 ° C.

In the states of South and North Dakota, besides, there will be storms, warned the NWS, which also announced snowfall in the Great Lakes. In these areas, it will be very difficult and extremely dangerous to move.