NASHVILLE, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- A frigid air mass that stretches as far west as Siberia has killed dozens of people in the United States.
All-time record-low temperatures have been reported across eastern, central and southern portions of the country, including in Jamestown, N.Y., which reached 31 degrees below zero Tuesday, and in Lynchburg, Va., which reached 11 below zero Friday morning.
Hundreds of daily record lows were set Friday from Connecticut to Florida and as far west as Indiana.
More than 20 people have died in incidents related to the low temperatures, including in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kentucky. According to the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency, 18 people died of hypothermia and weather-related car accidents in the state since Feb. 16, when a level-three state of emergency was declared.
A series of winter storms have moved west to east throughout the past months, setting snowfall records in Boston and other areas. According to the Weather Channel, the cold air mass now seizing the country stretches as far west as Russia, moving down through Canada and into the United States in what some meteorologists call the "Siberian Express."
Portions of the south, including Tennessee, face rain in the next three days, with ice and winter storm warnings staying in effect in the state's east and into the Great Lakes region, the central East Coast and the Northeast.
