Rhino
02-06-2007, 09:18 AM
Escaping Cold Is Life or Death for Some as Subzero Temperatures Lead to Closed Schools, Businesses
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Thousands of youngsters got a second day off from school Tuesday in the midst of a fierce cold wave blamed for at least seven deaths.
A mass of cold air surging down from the Arctic stretched from the northern Plains through New England and temperatures were below zero as far south as the mountains of West Virginia, but warmer weather was on the way.
With a Tuesday morning low of 6 degrees below zero, Milwaukee kept its schools closed for a second day, idling some 90,000 children. On Monday, the city fell to 12 below with a wind chill of 31 below.
Many schools in western New York also were shuttered for a second day, including the 34,000-student Rochester district.
Temperatures had started easing Tuesday in places where the cold was the worst. After Monday's low of 38 below zero, the northern Minnesota town of Hallock reported a Tuesday morning reading of just 9 below, the National Weather Service said. Grand Forks, N.D., had risen to 5 below by 7 a.m. Tuesday, after Monday's record 31 below zero.
Pockets of intense cold lingered, however, including 29 below on Tuesday at International Falls, Minn., snug up against the Canadian border.....http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,250464,00.html
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Thousands of youngsters got a second day off from school Tuesday in the midst of a fierce cold wave blamed for at least seven deaths.
A mass of cold air surging down from the Arctic stretched from the northern Plains through New England and temperatures were below zero as far south as the mountains of West Virginia, but warmer weather was on the way.
With a Tuesday morning low of 6 degrees below zero, Milwaukee kept its schools closed for a second day, idling some 90,000 children. On Monday, the city fell to 12 below with a wind chill of 31 below.
Many schools in western New York also were shuttered for a second day, including the 34,000-student Rochester district.
Temperatures had started easing Tuesday in places where the cold was the worst. After Monday's low of 38 below zero, the northern Minnesota town of Hallock reported a Tuesday morning reading of just 9 below, the National Weather Service said. Grand Forks, N.D., had risen to 5 below by 7 a.m. Tuesday, after Monday's record 31 below zero.
Pockets of intense cold lingered, however, including 29 below on Tuesday at International Falls, Minn., snug up against the Canadian border.....http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,250464,00.html