Deep freeze grips Northeast after heavy snowfall
CONCORD, N.H. — Falling temperatures replaced the weekend’s falling snow Monday as bitter cold and gusty winds swept across the eastern United States, causing scores of flight cancellations and creating dangerous driving conditions.
The National Weather Service had forecast that temperatures would be more than 20 degrees below normal across the Northeast, with wind gusts up to 30 mph and wind chills approaching minus 40 degrees in northern New York and Vermont.
The harsh weather contributed to multiple deaths over the long Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. In suburban Chicago, the temperature was about 14 degrees Sunday when a 12-year-old girl died after a snow fort collapsed on her.