More than 100 million Americans are under low temperature or frost alerts

Would you like to know what it’s like to face a big storm? Now it’s possible 0:52 (CNN) — A winter air mass will cover decorative pumpkins with frost and have people drinking hot apple cider this Tuesday and Wednesday. Very cold temperature advisories and freeze watches and warnings are in effect for more than 100 million people from Colorado east to the Appalachian Mountains, and as far south as the Gulf Coast. – Gust of cold air: these are the places that will record freezing temperatures this week in the US “Many places will experience their first freeze of the season during the next two nights, which will have a particular impact on sensitive crops and livestock the Climate Prediction Center said. “This first freeze is 10 to 15 days earlier in most weather stations,” the National Weather Service in Memphis wrote Tuesday morning, “with Memphis’ average first freeze day a little later, the 12th of November”. The forecasting center said temperatures will be 9 to -1 degrees below average in the coming days. “Widespread high and low temperature records are likely to be tied or broken in the mid/lower Mississippi Valley and Southeast today, and then in the central/southern Appalachians and Florida on Wednesday,” the forecast center said. The cold will bring snow to parts of the Great Lakes. More than a foot of snow has already fallen across Michigan’s eastern Upper Peninsula in Wisconsin in recent days. “Moderate to heavy snowfall is also expected over portions of northern Michigan and the upper peninsula today,” the forecast center said. Cold northwesterly winds at the rear of the storm system will continue to deliver lake-effect snow in some areas. By this weekend, above-normal temperatures in the west will have reached the eastern half of the country, quickly putting an end to this early arrival of winter temperatures.