In several coastal states, waves provoked by the wind flooded the streets of settlements. According to the CBS television channel, in Massachusetts, the authorities even had to evacuate a part of the population, after the water in the flooded streets began to freeze.

Several airports are closed, and in hospitals there are many patients with frostbite.

Because of the cold arctic air, the minimum temperature record was broken in Portland, Maine. Here, the thermometer bars rose to minus 24 degrees Celsius, and in Boston recorded a record from 1896 - minus 19 degrees.

In this case, one of the local residents of Massachusetts Ryan Candy made a video that shows the weather anomaly in the form of a partially frozen Atlantic Ocean.

According to him, at the time of shooting, the air temperature was about minus 20 degrees Celsius. Although usually the temperature in the state does not fall below 8 degrees in winter.

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, in the US as of January 5, due to severe colds that swept the north-eastern part of the country, killed at least 12 people, thousands of houses were left without electricity, traffic was disrupted.