It's colder in Chicago than in Antarctica | The O …

The United States is going through the most intense polar cold wave of the last thirty years. Six extreme temperatures have already killed six people in the Midwest. From the Gulf of Mexico to Maine, there are cities that suffer from temperatures between 30 and 50 degrees below zero.

The cold snap has arrived today and will spread to much of the affected area. The main city affected is Chicago. The largest city in the state of Illinois, next to the Great Lakes, has a minimum of 29 degrees below zero. It lives 2.7 million people, who experience lower temperatures than those in Antarctica.

The winds generate more cold, with Chicago reaching 46 degrees below zero, just behind Duluth, Minnesota, which recorded nearly 50 degrees. The governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, said the city was a disaster zone, constituting the third urban core of the United States, because of the "serious threat to health" represented by "potentially historic temperatures ".

The Chicago International Airport, O Hare, had to cancel 1325 flights. Another 326 flights were canceled at the nearby Midway Airport. The postal service and several sections of the railway also had to be suspended.

The color note was given by the Westchester Police, who asked that there be no criminal acts as it is "too cold to commit crimes". Meanwhile, controls are strengthened to prevent accidents.

At present, three people have died as a result of road accidents caused by bad weather, which add to the death of a man who, at the door of his home in Minnesota, did not find the keys and died frozen; another killed by the cold in Detroit; and a sixth who succumbed while it was snowing in Milwaukee.