Photos: Arctic air blasts Eastern states

Published 8:43 AM EST, Fri January 25, 2013
A pedestrian bundled up against the cold walks through the streets of Manhattan on Friday, January 24, in New York City. Polar air settled in over the northeastern U.S. Wednesday, with temperatures in the teens and 20s. Forecasters warned that "bitterly cold conditions" were expected across much of the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Mideast through this weekend.
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A pedestrian bundled up against the cold walks through the streets of Manhattan on Friday, January 24, in New York City. Polar air settled in over the northeastern U.S. Wednesday, with temperatures in the teens and 20s. Forecasters warned that "bitterly cold conditions" were expected across much of the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Mideast through this weekend.
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A surfer store with guys in swimwear seems an especially cruel sight for these bundled-up New Yorkers on Tuesday, January 22, as frigid temps hit the region.
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A surfer store with guys in swimwear seems an especially cruel sight for these bundled-up New Yorkers on Tuesday, January 22, as frigid temps hit the region.
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A lone pedestrian braves the winter chill on a Manhattan street on Thursday, January 24.
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A lone pedestrian braves the winter chill on a Manhattan street on Thursday, January 24.
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Much of the Northeast is experiencing colder than usual temperatures, but the weather doesn't deter this woman on Wednesday, January 23, in New York.
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Much of the Northeast is experiencing colder than usual temperatures, but the weather doesn't deter this woman on Wednesday, January 23, in New York.
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Ice covers firefighter Michael De Jesus while he mans a water cannon at the scene of a warehouse fire in Chicago on January 24.
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Ice covers firefighter Michael De Jesus while he mans a water cannon at the scene of a warehouse fire in Chicago on January 24.
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No, it's not a scene from the latest remake of "Anna Karenina," just a woman trying to ward off the cold in New York on January 22.
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No, it's not a scene from the latest remake of "Anna Karenina," just a woman trying to ward off the cold in New York on January 22.
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A man keeps bundled up as he waits to cross the street in New York on January 23.
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A man keeps bundled up as he waits to cross the street in New York on January 23.
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A woman pulls on her gloves on January 23 in New York.
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A woman pulls on her gloves on January 23 in New York.
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Firefighters battle a warehouse fire in Chicago on January 24.
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Firefighters battle a warehouse fire in Chicago on January 24.
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A woman hails a taxi on Lexington Avenue on Manhattan's Upper East Side on January 24.
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A woman hails a taxi on Lexington Avenue on Manhattan's Upper East Side on January 24.
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A woman keeps covered up as steam rises from the street on January 23 in New York.
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A woman keeps covered up as steam rises from the street on January 23 in New York.
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The U.S. Capitol in Washington is blanketed with snow on January 24. The same brutal Arctic cold front that's delivered subzero temperatures across the upper Midwest and Northeast is forecast to bring ice and freezing rain to the South and Mid-Atlantic states.
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The U.S. Capitol in Washington is blanketed with snow on January 24. The same brutal Arctic cold front that's delivered subzero temperatures across the upper Midwest and Northeast is forecast to bring ice and freezing rain to the South and Mid-Atlantic states.
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A man walks past a steam vent on Madison Avenue in Manhattan in the early morning of January 24.
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A man walks past a steam vent on Madison Avenue in Manhattan in the early morning of January 24.
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A pedestrian bundled up against the cold walks along a street in Manhattan on January 24.
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A pedestrian bundled up against the cold walks along a street in Manhattan on January 24.
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