Ice instead of Niagara and other consequences of abnormal cold in the United States

In some areas of the United States, the temperature for several days was below normal by 14-19 degrees Celsius. Due to the weather anomaly, temperatures in some parts of the United States were lower than in Antarctica.
In the US capital Washington, the temperature on Tuesday, January 7, dropped to minus 12 degrees Celsius.
New temperature records were also set in the states of Alabama (minus 14 degrees Celsius), Tennessee (minus 17), Arkansas (minus 13).
In some areas of the flat region and in the central part of the Appalachian mountain range, the temperature fell to minus 30 - minus 45 degrees Celsius.
Over the past few days, thousands of schools have been canceled, and 2,000 to 4,000 flights have not been operated daily.
On the eve of the airport named after John F. Kennedy in new York closed for two hours due to the fact that the airliner Delta slipped off the strip and stuck in a snowdrift.
Up to 21 deaths have been linked to bad weather, mainly as a result of road accidents, but also due to snow debris.
Damage from severe frost, which was established in early January in most of the United States, is estimated at about $ 5 billion.
The five-billion-dollar losses are relatively low. So, according to Planalytics, the weekly wave of cold weather in 2010 cost 25-30 billion dollars.
Meanwhile, the wave of cold is gradually coming to naught.
On Wednesday, the National Weather Service said the polar air front, which has brought record colds to the central and eastern U.S., is waning.