Death toll in polar vortex close to 21 in US

Tural Asadi
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Baku. 1 February. REPORT.AZ/ At least 21 people have died this week as a result of the intense polar vortex that covered most of the Midwest and then made its way to the East Coast this week bringing subzero windchills and snow, Report informs citing the Fox News.

The National Weather Service says the temperature dropped to minus 33 in Illinois on Thursday, breaking the previous record of minus 27 set Jan. 16, 2009. Rockford hit minus 31 Thursday, beating the minus 27 recorded Jan. 10, 1982. And wind chills made it feel many degrees colder.

Previously, 12 victims of cold weather in the United States reported.

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