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Record breaking cold weather to hault travel across mid-U.S. and Texas

By Brian Miller

This aerial view taken on February 26, 2018 with a drone shows a car driving on a country road through a winter snowy forest in the district of Holzminden, Germany.A wintry blast of freezing temperatures sweeps across Europe, with a biting wind from Siberia. The "Beast from the East", as the phenomenon has been dubbed by the British media, is expected to bring cold air from Russia over the next few days that will make it feel even chillier than thermometers indicate. / AFP PHOTO / dpa / Julian Stratenschulte / Germany OUT (Photo credit should read JULIAN STRATENSCHULTE/DPA/AFP via Getty Images)
This aerial view taken on February 26, 2018 with a drone shows a car driving on a country road through a winter snowy forest in the district of Holzminden, Germany.A wintry blast of freezing temperatures sweeps across Europe, with a biting wind from Siberia. The "Beast from the East", as the phenomenon has been dubbed by the British media, is expected to bring cold air from Russia over the next few days that will make it feel even chillier than thermometers indicate. / AFP PHOTO / dpa / Julian Stratenschulte / Germany OUT (Photo credit should read JULIAN STRATENSCHULTE/DPA/AFP via Getty Images) /
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If you are traveling to the great state of Texas, you may want to postpone if you can. According to reports, the Texas governor has issued a disaster declaration for every county in the state as a major winter weather storm bears down.

Temperatures are plummeting to record lows across the state with places like San Antonio set to dip to 16 degrees on Monday. Already, wind chills from the cold front have been recorded at -32 degrees. Freezing rain is expected across the South-central region until noon on Monday.

Temperatures will continue to fall as far as Dallas and in Houston along the coast. The extreme weather will also affect Arkansas as well. The National Weather Service has issued travel advisories for the region and are asking for motorists to stay off the road if at all possible.

Texas isn’t a state that is prepared for these types of weather problems. Most homes are not insulated to deal with low temperatures. The state government and the power companies are concerned with power outages and not being able to keep up with the heating demands across the state.

RUDD, IOWA – NOVEMBER 27: Snow blows across a road on November 27, 2019 near Rudd, Iowa. A winter storm, which dumped rain, ice, snow and brought high winds into much of the upper Midwest, has been hampering holiday travel by road and by air on one of the busiest travel days of the year. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
RUDD, IOWA – NOVEMBER 27: Snow blows across a road on November 27, 2019 near Rudd, Iowa. A winter storm, which dumped rain, ice, snow and brought high winds into much of the upper Midwest, has been hampering holiday travel by road and by air on one of the busiest travel days of the year. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) /

In addition to the cold and the ice, snow is also expected across the state. The winter storm will bring record temperatures all the way from Minnesota and Wisconsin where -33 degrees in northern Wisconsin are expected. On the East coast, temperatures on Monday will range from 53 degrees in Jacksonville to 3 degrees in upper Maine. The mid-Atlantic coastal regions will see temperatures in the low to mid-30s.

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It is not going to get better over the week ahead. Temperature predictions in Atlanta and northward the Carolina’s will see dips to the low to mid-20s as late as Wednesday.

If you are planning to travel this week, check the weather for your destination and the path of your travel.

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