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Chicago immersed in cold

Xinhua, December 19, 2016 Adjust font size:

Chicago is full of sunshine Sunday, but it is chilly cold, with the highest temperature being minus 11 Celsius degrees and the lowest, minus 23 Celsius degrees. Wind chill in the mid-day is minus 19 Celsius degrees.

With polar vortex hitting Chicago last week counted, Chicago is experiencing the coldest December in years.

If venture outside, you need to wrap yourself up and just have eyes exposed.

Chicago proper is having an all-time record for cold air temperatures on Sunday as the temperature was at minus 13 Celsius degrees and wind chill at minus 22 Celsius degrees by 4pm, a record set in 1983, Chicago Tribune quoted National Weather Service meteorologist Mark Ratzer as saying.

Due to frigid temperatures, 220 flights had been canceled at Chicago O' Hare Airport and 28 canceled at the Midway Airport by 3:30pm; and some schools in the Chicago area are set to be closed Monday.

Chicago is expecting a white Christmas a week later. Enditem