Meteorologists call it a cyclone bomb, as the temperature threatens to drop to minus 50 degrees if the wind factor is taken into account.
Weekend traffic is expected to be hit hard and late on Thursday over 2,000 flights had been canceled according to CNN. It also means that land transport and deliveries of oil and fuel will not be available.
– “This is not a snowy day that you remember from when you were a child. This is serious,” President Joe Biden said in a statement from the White House.
Hear Marcus Cederström on location in Wisconsin tell more in the player above