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Eugene

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Fri Nov 8, 2019, 11:01 PM Nov 2019

Next week's Arctic blast will be so cold, forecasters expect it to break 170 records across US

Source: USA Today

Next week's Arctic blast will be so cold, forecasters expect it to break 170 records across US

Doyle Rice USA Today
Published 6:30 a.m. ET Nov. 8, 2019 | Updated 2:28 p.m. ET Nov. 8, 2019

This week's cold snap is only an appetizer compared with the main Arctic blast that's coming next week, meteorologists said. That freeze could be one for the record books.

"The National Weather Service is forecasting 170 potential daily record cold high temperatures Monday to Wednesday,” tweeted Weather Channel meteorologist Jonathan Erdman. "A little taste of January in November."

The temperature nosedive will be a three-day process as a cold front charges across the central and eastern U.S. from Sunday into Tuesday.

The front will plunge quickly through the northern Plains and upper Midwest Sunday, into the southern Plains and Ohio Valley Monday, then through most of the East Coast and Deep South by Tuesday, the Weather Channel said.

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Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/11/08/weather-arctic-blast-next-week-midwest-east-south-cold-temperatures/2518984001/

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