Arctic temperatures make large Parts of the USA. Several people died already from the effects of the frosty weather. In some States, the state of emergency was proclaimed.
The cold of the Midwest of the USA. People are trying to get to safety. Affected 22 States, including North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin, including cities such as Detroit or Chicago.
you could not feel their hands, told a woman in Chicago, it was unbearable and dangerous. Another woman complained that it was hard to breathe. It affects your lungs.
health hazard
The temperatures break, minus the records, and in some places it is colder than the Antarctic. In Fargo, North Dakota, were minus measured 35 degrees Celsius, in Minneapolis, minus 32 degrees. If the Wind is blowing, it can be even colder.
Doctors warn: Only a few minutes to the cold air can be dangerous. The doctor Matthew Connelly, of Indianapolis was in the local television possible consequences: “numbness, discoloration of the fingertips, or nose. A long time could be a chronic discoloration, and even amputations – are so scary that is to follow.”
Arctic cold paralyzes US
night magazine, 31.01.2019, Verena Bünten, ARD Washington
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