Winter wheat threatened by the cold.
A whirlpool of frigid, dense air that pummeled much of the U.S. on Monday could break decades-old records from Montana to Alabama.
For a big chunk of the Midwest, the subzero temperatures were moving in behind another winter wallop: more than a foot of snow and high winds that made traveling treacherous.
The forecast is extreme: 32 below zero (-35 C) in Fargo; minus 21 (-29 C) in Madison; and 15 below zero (-26 C) in Minneapolis, Indianapolis and Chicago. Wind chills could drop into the minus 50s and 60s.
“It’s just a dangerous cold,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Butch Dye in Missouri.
It hasn’t been this cold for almost two decades in many parts of the country.
“I never remember it ever being this cold,” said Jeffery Davis, 51, in Chicago. “I’m flabbergasted.”
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