About 74 million Americans are under wind chill advisories Monday during the "coldest air of the season," CNN meteorologist Pedram Javaheri said.
Worcester, Massachusetts, tied its record low temperature Monday at negative 6 degrees Fahrenheit. And frigid air "will continue to overspread New England today and tonight," the National Weather Service's Boston office said Monday.
Swaths of New York are under a wind advisoryuntil Tuesday, with wind gusts expected to reach 50 mph, the National Weather Service's New York City office said.
New York state's eastern Catskills and Adirondacks could see "life-threatening" wind chill as low as 40 degrees below zero, Javaheri said.
The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency encouraged residents to keep pets indoors, limit time outside, watch for signs of frostbite, check on neighbors and use alternative heat sources safely.
Forecast models show a rapid warming trend across the East Coast by midweek, Javaheri said. But temperatures will plunge again leading into the weekend, he said.
"This secondary blast of cold air has staying power, however, and could linger up to around the time for Super Bowl Sunday (February 3)," Javaheri said.
Girl dies after playing in a snowbank
The victims killed in the storm include a 12-year-old girl in llinois who died after a snowbank collapsed on top of her, police said.
She had been playing with a 9-year-old girl outside a church when the fort they built collapsed on them, trapping them under the snow, Arlington police said. The 9-year-old girl was hospitalized and treated for hypothermia and is being held in the hospital for observation.
In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, two men died shortly after they were removing snow, CNN affiliate WITI reported.
A 59-year-old man who was shoveling snow outside his home Sunday died, WITI reported. And a 91-year-old man who had used a snowblower was later found dead in his home, according to WITI.
Two others were killed in a car accident in Kohler, Wisconsin, while driving on a snow-covered, slippery road, according to CNN affiliate WDJT.
In Middletown, Connecticut, a subcontractor for New England energy provider Eversource was finishing up repairs when a tree fell on top of him, killing him.
In Kansas, 25-year-old Stephen Windler, a state Department of Transportation employee, died after the snow plow he was driving overturned and landed on top of him.
And in Missouri, a 30-year-old man died after losing control of his vehicle on a snow-covered road and driving into the path of another car.
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