At least 21 people have been killed and electricity has been cut off from more than 800,000 homes across the United States as a severe cold wave continues to sweep most parts of the country due to the snowstorm “Fern,” described as one of the harshest in decades.
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According to the U.S. network Fox News, wide areas—particularly across the Great Lakes region in northern United States—have recorded a sharp drop in temperatures, plunging below minus 20 degrees Celsius, and falling to below minus 30 degrees Celsius in parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin, according to the National Weather Service.
The agency forecast that the cold snap will intensify in the coming days with the advance of a polar air mass, especially across the central United States, where wind chill values could reach around minus 45 degrees Celsius.
