Cold spell in the US in January 2019

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The frozen Chicago River

The January 2019 cold spell in the USA was a cold snap during winter 2018/2019 .

In late January 2019, an extreme cold spell triggered by a polar vortex hit the American Midwest and eastern Canada, killing at least 21 people. Sometimes temperatures of almost 40 degrees Celsius minus were measured.

On the Hawaiian island of Maui , it snowed for the first time in February 2019.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karsten Schwanke : Now extreme cold - in three days of spring , Die Zeit , February 1, 2019.
  2. ↑ Polar vortex death toll rises to 21 as US cold snap continues , BBC, February 1, 2019.
  3. ↑ Next extreme cold spell in the USA: Gigantic drop in temperature is imminent , Mercury, February 5, 2019.
  4. ↑ Gian Andrea Marti: It has never snowed so deep in Hawaii. In: nzz.ch . February 13, 2019, accessed February 20, 2019 .

Web links

Commons : Cold Spell in the USA in January and February 2019  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files