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Deep freeze keeps grip on eastern US, expected to ease from today

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Milwaukee: A record-shattering arctic cold wave kept its grip on much of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains on Tuesday but temperatures everywhere except the northeast were expected to warm thereafter.


Schools remained shut as a result of the cold snap, which claimed four lives over the long New Year weekend.


The National Weather Service issued wind chill warnings for Tuesday as dangerously low temperatures were possible from eastern Montana across the Midwest, into the Atlantic Coast and the Northeast and down through the deep south.


School districts in Iowa, Massachusetts, Indianapolis and Northeast Ohio cancelled or delayed the start of classes on Tuesday as bitterly cold temperatures 11 to 17 degrees Celsius below normal were expected across the eastern half of the United States.


“Just the bitter cold which is just too dangerous to put kids out on the street waiting for a bus that may not come,” said Herb Levine, superintendent of the Peabody School District, north of Boston, to a local CBS affiliate television station. Many places across the United States saw record low temperatures over the last few days. Omaha, Nebraska, posted a low of minus 20 F (minus 29 C), breaking a 130-year-old record, and Aberdeen, South Dakota, shattered a record set in 1919 with a temperature of minus 32 F (minus 36 C).


 — Reuters


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