Old Man Winter will be unrelenting across the Midwest and Northeast this week as yet another blast of arctic air rolls in and spreads deep into the South.
This next push of arctic air is expected to bring air that is just as cold, or even colder than the air that brought subzero lows to the Midwest and Northeast during the weekend.
Millions will shiver from
Chicago to
New York City as record lows are challenged during this bitter blast.
Records may also fall across parts of the South where temperatures manage to fall into the teens and single digits.
Some southern cities forecast to dip into the teens or lower include Birmingham, Alabama; Charlotte, North Carolina; Columbia, South Carolina; Nashville and Atlanta.
Floridians will even experience a taste of the arctic chill with temperatures dipping down to the lower 30s in cities such as Orlando, Melbourne and Daytona Beach.
The worst of the cold is expected to focus over the East for Thursday into Friday.
In the mid-Atlantic, some daily record lows set during the late-1800s will be challenged.
AccuWeather.com RealFeel® temperatures below 0 F will be common across the regions during the daytime hours, including cities along the Interstate 95 corridor. These values can then drop by as much as 20 degrees during the overnight hours, making for a bitterly cold morning commute.
Snow showers are also likely to develop downwind of the Great Lakes late in the week even though the lakes are quickly becoming covered in ice.
Temperatures can be very dangerous, and
possibly even life threatening during this arctic outbreak.
Comment: It appears to shaping up to be a re-run of last years' mass avian die-off (due to the extreme cold and extensive ice cover), see these March, 2014 reports:
Hundreds of ducks found dead around Great Lakes due to ice cover
10 Fold increase in the number of dying water birds rescued in Toronto due to extreme cold
Death toll of waterbirds on frozen Lake Erie likely to number tens of thousands