Frigid winter weather dumped huge amounts of snow on parts of the Midwest and transformed summer breezes into gusts far below freezing in a matter of hours is headed for the East Coast.
A huge front of cold air that has swamped Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan with intense and dangerous flurries of snow pushed south overnight, freezing places as far south as Oklahoma and Texas.
And by Thursday, the system will have reached New England and the Atlantic seaboard, where it could send temperatures plunging by 15 to 20 degrees. By the weekend freezing temperatures could reach as far south as Atlanta, Georgia.
Swamped: Ishpeming in Michigan, pictured above by Twitter user Raquel Musselman, was hit by 36 inches of snow - the most in the country
Coping: A hardy Ishpeming resident, left, clears a path to the street while, right, cars remain buried by the extreme snowfall
Frozen: A couple in Bozeman, Montana, brave the cold to walk their dogs after snows hit the region. Bozeman has reported temperatures of -6 degrees
Snowfall: Wisconsin, upper Michigan and Minnesota were buried in snow,
Low temperatures and heavy snow blanket midwest
According to the National Weather Service, snow could spread as far as Ohio, West Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and upstate New York - though New York City will not be hit.
Wednesday morning the worst-hit states were still dealing with the huge volumes of snow which fell in the three-day storm.
Credit to Mailonline.com
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