Arctic Air Puts Bite on North, Stretches to Fla.
Arctic air howled across the nation’s northern tier today, and winter’s bite was felt as far south as Florida, where a possible frost kept citrus growers checking their trees and sun lovers all bundled up.
Heavy snow buried parts of Maine, West Virginia and the Great Lakes states. Some snowbelt areas received nearly two feet of winter’s white by early today.
Schools were closed in two counties in West Virginia and in northern areas of Maine.
In the Deep South, cold winds blew across Georgia. Temperatures, with the wind chill factor, plummeted as low as 10 degrees in Atlanta.
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