At Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, temperatures dipped to minus 23 degrees on Wednesday morning, breaking that day’s previous record low of minus 15, set in 1966. The lowest wind chill recorded Wednesday in Chicago was 52 degrees below zero, according to the National Weather Service. JOSHUA LOTT via Getty Images Lake Michigan's shoreline is frozen as temperatures dropped to minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit on Wednesday in Chicago. Parts of Minnesota woke to some of the country’s coldest temperatures, with minus 38 degrees recorded in Melrose, Minnesota, on Wednesday morning. As for the extreme cold temperatures recorded in parts of the U.S., scientists argue that it’s just bad weather and not conflicting evidence of climate change, as President Donald Trump suggested Monday on Twitter.

Source: Huffington Post January 30, 2019 23:00 UTC