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Patrick Pester

US suffers record-breaking cold: What's going on with the polar vortex?

A GOES-East satellite image of the continental U.S. taken during the winter storm on Feb. 19. .

The U.S. is experiencing record-breaking cold and heavy snow this week as another winter storm sweeps across several central and eastern states.

Wind chills between minus 30 and minus 60 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 34 and 51 degrees Celsius) have been forecast for the northern Plains over the next few days, and below-zero wind chills will likely reach as far south as southern Texas, Arkansas, western Tennessee and Kentucky, the National Weather Service (NWS) said in a post on Facebook.

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