The ‘Cold’ is coming to America this weekend….

Much of the country is in for widespread and dangerously cold temperatures beginning this weekend — and lasting through much of next week — as a lobe of the polar vortex over northern Greenland is projected to swirl more than 3,000 miles south toward the United States.

More than 120 million people live in a zone that will experience subzero temperatures — affecting more than a third of people living in the United States — while around 30 states and nearly 50 million people could experience temperatures below minus-10 degrees. The dangerous wind chills and severe levels of cold will drive a risk of hypothermia and frostbite. The plummeting temperatures can cause frozen and bursting pipes, and threaten the power grid. The cold will also be a danger to pets and livestock.