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Front brings coldest temperatures of season


POSTED: 4:35 p.m. EST, December 7, 2006
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Story Highlights• Powerful cold front leaves Midwest shivering, heads southeast• Coldest temperatures of the season expected Thursday night • Lows below freezing forecast as far south as New Orleans
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(CNN) -- A powerful cold front headed for the South on Thursday, bringing the coldest temperatures of the season to many parts of the United States.
From New England to Texas, temperatures were expected to drop by as much as 30 degrees during the day as the front pushed southeast.
The front packed strong winds as well as cold temperatures, and "feels-like," or wind chill, temperatures were expected to plummet by 50 degrees in some places.
Although the front was expected to affect most of the East, the South was in line for the worst of it, with Thursday night lows expected to drop below freezing as far south as New Orleans and Jacksonville, Florida.

The Great Lakes region felt the effects of the front early Thursday, with morning temperatures near zero in many places.
High winds took another 20 degrees off those readings, so the temperature in Duluth, Minnesota, felt like 28 degrees below zero.
CNN meteorologist Chad Myers predicted the intense cold won't last long, and more seasonable temperatures will return by Sunday or Monday.
In the Midwest, areas of Illinois and Missouri where some residents have been without power for a week saw temperatures plummet on Wednesday night and Thursday.

The Associated Press reported that high winds overnight and into Thursday only made matters worse across the region: The number of Ameren Corp. customers without power in Missouri and Illinois was up to more than 52,000, the majority of those in Illinois, Ameren spokeswoman Susan Gallagher said.
Crews likely would be working into Friday and perhaps Saturday to restore power, she told the AP.

Snow was forecast south of the Great Lakes, where some areas could get as much as 2 feet of snow from blinding lake-effect snowstorms.