NEW YORK: Millions of people across the United States on Monday made last minute preparations for an unusually bitter Arctic blast that could send temperatures plummeting to their coldest in 20 years.

The North-eastern United States and parts of Canada have endured heavy snow and deadly sub-zero conditions since the start of the year, but the deep freeze is now moving through the Midwestern United States and threatening usually balmy areas further south like Tennessee and Alabama.

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