Freezing air sweeps the country
A bitter blast of Arctic air is causing temperatures to drop below average for millions across the country.
If the thought of frigid temperatures gives you chills, you may want to stay inside for the next few days because an intense wave of cold air is sweeping across the United States this week and threatening dozens of records.
If the cold air wasn't enough, a fast-moving storm system known as the Manitoba Muller brought snow to parts of the upper Midwest and the Great Lakes, including cities like Minneapolis, Chicago and Milwaukee.
Minneapolis records first snowfall of the season as Manitoba Mueller heads to Chicago and the Great Lakes
Nearly 250 million Americans will feel below-average temperatures on Wednesday morning, with more than 210 million people feeling temperatures at least 10 degrees below average on November 1.
The freeze watch extends along the East Coast and includes the Interstate 95 corridor from Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington to Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia.
Dozens of records are at risk
By Wednesday morning, record low temperatures are expected to fall from Texas to Ohio, according to the FOX Forecast Center. This includes cities like Dallas, Kansas City, St. Louis, and Nashville, Tennessee.
Record temperatures are likely to fall Thursday morning, this time across the Appalachian Mountains and the mid-Atlantic, before temperatures warm slightly heading into the weekend.
Dozens of records were at risk as of Thursday morning.
Cold Halloween
Some areas, leading the charge this week, had their coldest Halloween on record.
Bismarck, North Dakota, predicted Tuesday's high temperature would reach a bone-chilling 25 degrees, which would break the old record of 27 degrees set on Halloween in 1919 — more than 100 years ago.
Other cities that were on the verge of breaking old Halloween temperature records include Sioux Falls in South Dakota, Omaha in Nebraska, and Detroit.
