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Severe weather conditions, shown on a new map, are set to engulf much of North America ahead of Christmas Day, causing temperatures to drop significantly.
Weather Network meteorologist Erin Wenckstern shared a video of a map showcasing the arctic blast that’s set to hit multiple states over the next few days.
“Widespread rapid drop in temperatures will lead to a flash freeze for some across North America, along with destructive winds,” Wenckstern wrote as a caption for the clip that has so far been viewed more than 30,000 times.
The map covers the weather conditions across the U.S. between Wednesday evening and Friday morning.
Throughout Wednesday night, going into Thursday, the arctic blast will strike through the central states of Idaho, Utah, Wyoming and Colorado.
The northern states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Minnesota will also see a significant temperature drop.
As Thursday progresses, the cold freeze will reach as far south as northern Texas and Oklahoma as it moves further east.
The states of Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee will then see a drop in temperature, and as the strong winds move the cold chill further east on Friday, the south eastern states of Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina will also feel the chill.
By late Friday morning, the states south of Pennsylvania will see a fall off in temperature. According to the map, over the next few days the coldest temperatures will be -33 F in Billings, Montana.
Other areas that will experience some of the coldest temperatures include Denver, Colorado, which will see -22F, Kansas City, Missouri, which will get to -22F, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, which will see -26 F.
Newsweek has previously spoken to MIT climatologist Judah Cohen on the intense winter weather conditions that have been seen in recent years.
He said that as average global temperatures rise, winter temperatures are increasing at a slower rate than expected.
He said: “Over the past 30 to even 40 years, winter has warmed the least of all four seasons in the mid-latitudes, especially in the center of the major Northern Hemisphere continents—Asia and North America—where temperatures have actually cooled.”
An explanation that has been put forward is that the warming of the Arctic is causing changes in the movement of air around the North Pole.
The cold air in the Arctic is usually contained within the Arctic circle by a ring of fast-moving air that circles the North Pole, this is called the stratospheric polar vortex.
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