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by: By Derek Van Dam, CNN Meteorologist
Posted:
Feb 4, 2021 / 03:22 PM EST
CNN) The blizzard blasting parts of the Midwest on Thursday is a curtain-raiser for a cold snap that people won’t soon forget.
A “flash freeze” could accompany this storm as temperatures drop rapidly below freezing, making for very dangerous conditions.
A flash freeze happens when rapidly falling temperatures “quickly turn any wet or slushy roads to ice,” the National Weather Service office in Des Moines, Iowa, noted, warning it will likely create significant travel problems Thursday across the Hawkeye State.
The arctic chill won’t spare the rest of the country either. By Monday morning, 212 million Americans roughly 67% of the country will experience temperatures below freezing. This includes every state in the Lower 48.
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