The most extreme arctic blasts, blamed on a weather pattern known as the polar vortex, were said to have
affected nearly 190 million people.
In Kentucky, an escaped prisoner turned himself in to get out of the cold.
Some parts of the Midwest hit -26C (-14F), as low as the Antarctic coast in winter, and much colder than the inside of a domestic freezer.
Temperature records were shattered in states across the US, including Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Michigan, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York.
It was -17C (1F) in the small town of Hell, Michigan, prompting online jokes that the weather was so bad even
hell had frozen over.
Colder than Mars But it was Embarrass, Minnesota, that experienced the lowest temperature in the nation on Tuesday: -37C (-35F).
That was colder than readings recently recorded on the Red Planet by the Mars Rover.
A video of a meteorologist tossing a pot of boiling water into the air in Wisconsin, to demonstrate how it
immediately turns to snow, quickly went viral on the internet and was widely imitated.
A woman in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, was taken to hospital with severe burns after she slipped on ice
while attempting the trick, spilling boiling water on herself, the Argus Leader newspaper reported.
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