- Airlines have cancelled over 9,000 flights and delayed thousands of others over the past four days as winter storms dump snow over huge swathes of the country.
- The Midwest is experiencing the coldest weather in almost 20 years, with the highest temperatures in Chicago not even expected to reach zero degrees fahrenheit (-18 degrees celsius).
- The storm is heading towards the East Coast, which already experienced a major whiteout at the end of last week.
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