Arctic invader puts much of Midwest in deep freeze
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Clifford Armion
le 01/07/2014
Matt Pearce and Molly Hennessy-Fiske
A brutal "polar vortex" gripped much of the Midwest on Monday, pushing temperatures to record subzero lows, grounding more than 4,000 flights and prompting authorities to urge residents to stay home or go to emergency warming shelters.In Chicago, temperatures dropped to a record 16 degrees below zero at O'Hare International Airport on Monday, spawning a new National Weather Service Twitter hashtag: #Chiberia. Records also fell in Oklahoma, Texas and Indiana.
In Minneapolis, it was minus 18 — minus 40 with the wind chill — and the high was minus 12. Margaret Roth found herself stranded in the Twin Cities, where she had arrived from Florida for a wedding. It was so cold, she said, that the inside of her nose froze.
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Arctic invader puts much of Midwest in deep freeze, La Clé des Langues [en ligne], Lyon, ENS de LYON/DGESCO (ISSN 2107-7029), juin 2014. Consulté le 23/01/2025. URL: https://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/archives/archives-revue-de-presse/arctic-invader-puts-much-of-midwest-in-deep-freeze