-30f Archives - Daily Concord https://dailyconcord.com/tag/30f/ The Concord of African Journalism Fri, 01 Feb 2019 00:05:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 https://dailyconcord.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/cropped-DailyConcordIcon-32x32.png -30f Archives - Daily Concord https://dailyconcord.com/tag/30f/ 32 32 Thirteen dead after historic deep freeze blasts the Midwest and record-breaking -30F temperatures linger as the cold snap moves into the Northeast, causing travel chaos with 2,300 canceled flights https://dailyconcord.com/thirteen-dead-after-historic-deep-freeze-blasts-the-midwest-and-record-breaking-30f-temperatures-linger-as-the-cold-snap-moves-into-the-northeast-causing-travel-chaos-with-2300-canceled-flights/ Thu, 31 Jan 2019 23:00:05 +0000 https://dailyconcord.com/?p=13635 The deadly polar vortex that paralyzed the U.S. Midwest has killed at least 13 people

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]]> The deadly polar vortex that paralyzed the U.S. Midwest has killed at least 13 people and left tens of millions of Americans shivering for a second day as temperatures plunged to record-breaking lows and the cold snap moved over towards the East Coast. 

The painfully cold weather system that put much of the Midwest into a historic deep freeze lingered on Thursday and continued to break historic records with parts of Illinois and Iowa recording temperatures of -38F and -30F respectively. 

The frigid conditions canceled more than 2,300 flights and over 1,500 delays on Thursday, while the number of deaths blamed on the cold climbed to 13.

Chicago’s temperature dropped to a low of around -21F on Thursday, slightly above the city’s lowest-ever reading of -27F in January 1985. Milwaukee’s low was -25F. Minneapolis recorded -24F, and wind chills were as low as -38F, an improvement from a day earlier. Rockford, Illinois, saw a record low temperature of -31F on Thursday, while Cedar Rapids, Iowa, set a daily record low of -30F.

The extreme cold also settled in over the Northeast on Thursday. In western New York, a storm that dumped up to 20 inches of snow gave way to subzero temperatures and dangerous wind chills. The arctic conditions caused problems from Buffalo to Brooklyn, where about 200 firefighters battling an early morning blaze in a commercial building took turns getting warm on buses. 

The phenomenon caused surreal scenes throughout the region, including Lake Michigan freezing over, parts of Niagara Falls solidifying into frozen stillness and blocks of ice covering the river in downtown Chicago.

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