This is reported by CBS News.

The whole country was covered by a frosty wind and unprecedented precipitation, the temperature on thermometers fell below 20 degrees below zero. Residents of the American East Coast continue, a number of coastal areas have received orders from local authorities to urgently begin evacuation to specially constructed camps or to a safe place. Weather forecasters predict that the cold weather will continue here and during the weekend. Anticyclone came to the US from the south of the Gulf of Mexico.

Climate experts say that such circumstances of the collision of warm and cold cyclones are extremely rare in the country, especially in the east of the country. Such phenomena can sometimes be observed in the states of Utah, Dakota or Wisconsin, but not New York. In some cities, the temperature dropped to minus 40-45 degrees Celsius.

As reported in URA-Inform, in the United States of America, where a snowstorm is raging, as of Friday morning, January 5th, at least 12 people were killed.