Almost the entire US shiver is currently under extreme temperatures. 250 million Americans – 77 percent of the total population – live in areas where the temperature is currently below zero drops. In Chicago, this is the week colder than in Antarctica, the north of Alaska or Siberia. The Flemish city guide Leentje De Leeuw takes with her family, precautions to prepare for the extreme cold.
Especially the north and the heart of the united states this week to deal with extremely cold temperatures. In Chicago drops the mercury this week to -33 degrees Celsius. Count to that the wind – Chicago has not for nothing the nickname ‘the Windy City’ – and the wind chill drops to -45°C.
also Read Trump wonders where the global warming go, because it is so cold in the USA: “Come back soon, we need you!”
The Chicago River, which crosses the city and empties into the 500-kilometer-long Lake Michigan is almost completely frozen over. Even more begin to gradually freeze. JB Pritzker, the governor of the state of Illinois in which Chicago is situated, announced meanwhile the state of emergency. the
the public life of the city freezes. Schools continue tomorrow due to the extreme cold close and only those who are truly on the road must, go outside. Snow and ice is there, after all, dangerously slippery. More than 3,000 flights in the US are abolished.
