The cold snap brought record single-digit temperatures to the Chicago area; set snowfall records in Buffalo, N.Y., and Detroit; dusted cars with snow in Tennessee.
Snow and cold records fell from the Plains to the Great Lakes and beyond as an arctic air mass that started in Siberia spilled over a big chunk of the eastern half of the U.S., including the normally mild South, on Tuesday.
The roughly 10 inches of snow in Buffalo and Detroit by Tuesday morning were record depths for the time of year, weather service records show. Areas of Vermont and Maine prepared for similar totals as a wintry mix also closed or delayed hundreds of schools in northern New England.In St. Louis, the mercury dipped to 11 degrees Tuesday, breaking a record for the date that had stood since 1911.A jogger braves temperatures in the teens as he goes for a run Tuesday in Nashville, Tenn.
Forecasters said daytime temperatures would remain in the 30s across a wide area of the South. Freeze warnings reached from eastern Texas to coastal South Carolina, with overnight lows predicted in the 20s.
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