The Arctic cold holds the Middle West of the United States firmly in its grip. US media reported after the icy Wednesday of the deaths of eight people in connection with the extreme low temperatures. The National weather service (NWS), as well as Doctors and emergency responders warned on Wednesday (local time) in front of “life-threatening” conditions. A minimum of three Federal States called in the event of a disaster.

nationwide, more than 2700 flights were, more than 1800 of the two major Airports of Chicago. In six States, the Post has not been delivered, in Chicago, the regional trains stopped.

To the Middle West of the USA are counted, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin.

In the small town of Mahnomen in the North-West of the state of Minnesota, the Barometer fell on Wednesday at 6 a.m. to minus 40 degrees Celsius. The authorities in the States of Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan had contingency measures in force.

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In Grand Forks, in the state of North Dakota, the Thermometer dropped to minus 37 degrees, the wind chill temperature was minus 52 degrees. Many schools and shops remained closed. Thousands of flights were canceled, and more than 1500 at the two Airports of Chicago. On canadian airports, many flights were cancelled.

Chicago, on Michigan lake in the North of the USA is situated in the centre of the great cold. In the third largest city in the United States, the temperature fell in the Morning to minus 30 degrees. “This is obviously a historical cold,” said mayor Rahm Emanuel. “The temperatures are dangerous and we must act accordingly.” Residents protected their faces with ski masks when they left their apartments. For the 16,000 homeless people of Chicago, the authorities introduced more than 270 Heat exchanges. These were established in Chicago and Minneapolis buses as temporary warming shelters. In addition, each police service to people who wanted to protect themselves from the cold.

Snowplows clearing snow at minus 33 degrees Celsius in the city of Bismarck in North Dakota.Photo: Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune via AP/dpa

In Michigan, the Governor Gretchen Whitmer ordered the closure of all non-essential authorities until Friday. Also, the schools remained in view of the on Thursday expected temperatures of up to minus 40 degrees closed.

In Carroll County, Indiana, died in local media, according to a Zebra on a private farm in the cold. The daily newspaper “USA Today”, warned pet owners to keep their “furry friends,” as inside, or, when walking the dog, also warm to put on. “If it is too cold for you, it’s too cold for you.”

by Wednesday evening, accounted for, or delayed thousands of flights in the United States. The airports were part of the de-Icing of the machine. The rail company Amtrak said on Wednesday all of the train services from and to Chicago. In the city the public transport operator in the fire, laid some tracks, such as the transmitter CNN reported. In the extreme cold the metal is moving in, which meant that rail parts detached from each other. The heat of the fire should expand the metal so that damage could be repaired. The flames came thus to the tracks over the course of the heating gas lines.

Ice formation on Lake Michigan.Photo: Scott Olson//AFP

The weather service warned frostbite on unprotected skin within minutes. Responsible for this “Arctic cold” is the so-called polar vortex – a Band of cold westerly winds that circles normally over the North pole. The vortex is weakened, the air in the lower Latitudes to escape.

The Arctic winter lobe reached as far up in the North East of the country. In cities such as New York and Philadelphia, gusts of wind drove the snow through the air and clouded as always by minutes. In Pennsylvania were involved according to CNN, the same 26 cars in an accident, after the view on a remote road suddenly deteriorated.

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the reason for the cold is the Arctic air that has broken away from the normally the North circular so-called polar vortex. For this separation could be, according to a scientific Thesis climate warming is responsible. (AFP,dpa)