Arctic blast brings widespread snow, frigid temperatures across U.S., with 175 million under cold weather alerts

Over 175 million people across the country are under some form of cold weather alert as the mid-Atlantic and Northeast ready for another round of rain and snow and southern states brace for frigid temperatures and rare snowfall.

Over 175 million people across the country are under some form of cold weather alert as the mid-Atlantic and Northeast ready for another round of rain and snow and southern states brace for frigid temperatures and rare snowfall.

The cold comes on the tail of another system that brought scattered rain and snow to parts of the East Coast on Saturday.

Varying levels of cold weather alerts will be in effect across much of the country over the next couple of days as a “bitterly cold Arctic airmass” drops temperatures 10 to 40 degrees below average, according to the National Weather Service.

Cold weather alerts stretch from northern-tier states along the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico. The most extreme cold will grip the northern Plains and the Rocky Mountains, where wind chill values will dip as low as minus 30 to minus 55 degrees.

In Houston, where temperatures were plunging to freezing and below Sunday night, officials were contending with a separate low pressure-driven storm that was expected to produce rain, then freezing rain, then snow Monday into Tuesday, federal forecasters said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/weather/winter-weather/135-million-cold-weather-alerts-rcna188314

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