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Arctic Blast Spreads Shivers to The Eastern US

Associated Press

   PORTLAND, MAINE - An arctic blast that caused record-setting cold in
   the Midwest is now spreading shivers across the eastern U.S.

   The wintry weather proved deadly in southwestern Michigan, where a man
   died Tuesday after getting trapped beneath machinery while clearing
   snow.

   Temperatures dipped to single digits early Wednesday across parts of
   the Northeast on the heels of an early-season snowstorm. Forecasters
   projected even lower temperatures for late Wednesday and early Thursday
   in some locations.

   National Weather Service meteorologist Mark Bloomer in Caribou, Maine,
   said the frigid air mass is creating mid-winter conditions.

   Record low temperatures for the date were recorded Tuesday around New
   York City; Buffalo, New York; Burlington, Vermont; and parts of Ohio.
   More daily records were broken Wednesday morning in Burlington, parts
   of Pennsylvania, and as far south as Alabama and Mississippi.