Snow, ice and record chill spread south as winter weather sweeps the nation - video Dailymotion

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00:00Yikes, it's beginning to look and feel a lot like winter.

00:06A surge of Arctic air is spilling south, dropping temperatures across two-thirds of the country

00:12and setting up a deep freeze from the plains to the Gulf.

00:15People are waking up to record lows this morning, stretching from the Carolinas to the Gulf Coast.

00:20Montgomery and Mobile, Alabama, even Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia, all waking up either at or below freezing.

00:27Chicago's already feeling it.

00:29The city's first winter storm warning brought several inches of snow and slick streets across Cook County,

00:35with lake effect bands still piling on through today.

00:39Just southeast of there, heavy snow blanketed.

00:42Parts of Indiana, like here in Highland, seeing close to a foot of snow in parts.

00:47Yep, snowblowers out. You see that there?

00:49The same cold blast now drives east, bringing frigid mornings to the south and record chills through the southeast.

00:55Even Florida dropping into the 30s and 40s.

00:59Forecasters say this polar plunge sticks around through midweek before temperatures start to slowly climb back to normal

01:05so I can mow my lawn one last time this season.