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The National Weather Service on Thursday warned that “dangerously cold and very dry Arctic air” will spill into the continental United States and lead to “life-threatening risk of hypothermia and frostbite” as temperatures drop well into negative territory, creating some of the coldest weather on Earth.
Last year was Earth’s third hottest globally, but temperature is just one measure of climate change’s influence.
The National Weather Service has issued a slew of severe weather alerts for the Florida Panhandle on Sunday through Tuesday.
Bitter temperatures and amounts of snow and freezing rain made the weekend storm impactful, the state's climatologist said.