Record-breaking cold

Eliana Dockterman has a Time article about the weather:

Meteorologists are predicting parts of the eastern United States could experience historically low temperatures over the next few days, thanks to a cold spell called the Siberian Express.
The National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center says that temperatures in the upper and middle Mississippi Valley and Tennessee Valley, all the way to the Carolinas and lower Great Lakes, will be twenty to fifty degrees below average. That could mean record-low February temperatures for Tennessee, Virginia, Ohio, and West Virginia.
The air responsible for the shift has been traveling in from Siberia, over the North Pole, and down into North America over the past week.
According to the Washington Post, the nation’s capital didn’t drop below six degrees last year. But this week, the region’s NWS office noted that Washington, D.C.’s temperature may fall below zero for the first time since 19 January 1994.
The center also expects more “heavy snow” for parts of New England, making for unwelcome news after successive storms dumped several feet of snow in the region over the last few weeks.

Rico says he's, fortunately, going on vacation to someplace warm while all this is happening...