that severe. 17% of the u.s. will have temperatures below zero. 80% of us will have the temperatures below freezing by tuesday. we re looking at 250 daily records that could fall, record cold high temperatures and record cold overnight low temperatures as we go through the next couple of days. here is a look at some of the morning low temperatures. these are temperatures, not windchills. they will be well below zero there bismarck, fargo, minneapolis, up in the dakotas. this morning they already had windchills at minus 70 degrees below zero. so incredibly cold, extreme cold. and i want to point out this part of the country, this is the first time this year that they are even seeing any hint of winter cold. we have had the warmest winter so far on record for a lot of these places, including des moines, all those red dots that you see, it has been quite warm since december 1. elysea lisa raffa, thank you much.
is going to wrap up. behind it, the colder, windier air comes in, and this is our second storm that we have had that s moved almost the exact same area over the last five days. behind the storm is where the colder air comes in. blizzard warnings or blizzard conditions confirmed where you see the red dots, near blizzard where you have the blue, that s the amount of sustained wind over a longer period of time that gets those categories to be qualifying for it as blizzard. this is where we have the blizzard warnings by the way, also across some places in wisconsin and michigan dealing with the conditions as well. watch what happens as the center area of low pressure pulls away, the wind comes out of the northwest, that s where all the cold air is and it s gonna be windy and so expecting not just the snow that s not going to go anywhere, but john, look at the wind chill alerts. anywhere you see this purple, maybe -50 to -60°. it s going to be dangerous and a lot of people who are not used