Cold air broke records 2014

About half of the US population has been placed under a wind chill warning or cold weather advisory. In Toronto, the temperature dropped to -24C (-11F) before dawn on Tuesday Jan. 07, 2014. Air, rail and road travel remain snarled by high, freezing wind, and residents have been warned to stay indoors to avoid frostbite. Cold air broke records in Chicago on Monday, where the temperature of -16F (-27C) was the lowest ever seen on that date. ---------------- The town of Embarrass, Minnesota, recorded the lowest temperature in the United States Tuesday[Jan. 07,2014] at a frigid -37 Celsius. Then there was the wind chill: a calculation that represents how much colder it feels when the blinding gusts hit you in the face. That dipped as low as -52 Celsius in Montana and was in the -40 to -50 Celsius range in parts of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin.