Much of the United States will see temperatures plummet 20 to 40 degrees below average when a major Arctic outbreak bringing frigid temperatures sweeps through the country.
The frigid temperatures begin Sunday and last through much of the week. Cities such as Minneapolis will see highs of minus 3 degrees Fahrenheit and minus 6 early in the week.
Dallas, Atlanta and Washington, D.C., will see temperatures in the low 20s and 30s. New York could see low temperatures in the single digits next week.
Wind chills will be as cold as 30 to 40 degrees below zero for the Rockies and the upper Midwest.
The cold snap will also bring rain to the Southeast and increase snow chances for the Northeast. Snow will break out across parts of the Great Lakes, the Ohio Valley and the interior Northeast on Saturday.
As snow falls to the north, soaking rain will move across the Southeast, the Florida Panhandle and the Carolinas on Saturday.
Light to moderate snow is expected to move from the mid-Atlantic into New England on Sunday. The storm will bring roughly 12 hours of snow from Washington, D.C., to Boston. Those areas could see 2 to 5 inches, with some that could see more than 6 inches.
And Monday, the presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C., is set to become one of the coldest on record. Temperatures could be as low as 20 degrees, with gusty winds possibly making it feel like 5 to 10 degrees.
The coldest Inauguration Day in U.S. history was when Ronald Reagan was sworn in for his second term in 1985, as temperatures bottomed out at 7 degrees.
