America encased in ice: Stunning shot from space captures scale of the Siberian Express deep freeze
Channel: Aliens insider
Date: 2015-07-08

America encased in ice: Stunning shot from space captures scale of the Siberian Express deep freeze gripping the nation

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2963910/Eastern-U-S-encased-ice-Stunning-shot-space-captures-deep-freeze-gripping-nation.html

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Americans living in the eastern U.S. have certainly been feeling the cold this past week, but now they can see it.

This weekend, NASA released a satellite photo which shows the Midwest and East Coast turned white with snow and ice thanks to a recent blast of Siberian and Arctic air. 

However, the blast has contributed to 21 weather-related fatalities in Tennessee since Monday, according to the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency. They include 11 people who died of hypothermia and five victims of motor-vehicle accidents.

'Looks like the states have been sitting in a freezer,' the space agency said in a statement. 

The picture was taken by NASA's Terra satellite 200 miles up from Earth on Friday when record low temperatures were set across the nation including in Maryland, Kentucky, North Carolina and Georgia.

Any hopes of a big thaw should be retired for the time being. Another 'Siberian Express' weather system is forecast to hit Sunday, causing a rain-and-snow storm to hit parts of the East Coast and South.

Six inches or more of fresh snow was forecast for parts of the Northeast by early Sunday, according to the National Weather Service (NWS). Bitter cold is also expected, but conditions should start to ease in many areas by mid-morning, the service said.