PHOTOS: Record cold follows early snowstorm over the eastern United States

With a steady snow falling, a squirrel eats seeds from a recycled jack-o-lantern in Johnson City, Tenn., on Tuesday morning, Nov. 12, 2019. Following the light snowfall, temperatures began to drop throughout the day with record cold expected overnight. (David Crigger/Bristol Herald Courier via AP)

Snow collects on Coal, a highland steer belonging to David Wilson, in Lanesborough, Mass., Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019. Snow and cold records fell from the Plains to the Great Lakes and beyond as an arctic airmass that started in Siberia spilled over a big chunk of the eastern half of the U.S., including the normally mild South, on Tuesday. (Beb Garver/The Berkshire Eagle via AP)

A walker takes a stroll through the light snow at Steele Creek Park in Bristol Tennessee on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019. Following the light snowfall, temperatures began to drop throughout the day with record cold expected overnight. (Andre Teague/Bristol Herald Courier via AP)

Ben Barney shovels the sidewalk on North Center Street in downtown Corry, Pennsylvania on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019. Erie and Crawford counties were under a winter storm warning from the National Weather Service in Cleveland. (Jack Hanrahan/Erie Times-News via AP)

A man walks across the icy Legislative Plaza Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Snow and icy conditions are snarling traffic and closing or delaying schools in parts of the Northeast and South. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Emma Hart, 5 of Clio, stops to lick up fresh snow as she rolls around while sledding with her father Ryan Hart on the hill behind Southwestern Classical Academy on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019 in Flint, Mich. (Jake May/The Flint Journal via AP)

A dusting of snow covers the ground as a runner braves temperatures in the teens Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Snow and icy conditions are snarling traffic and closing or delaying schools in parts of the Northeast and South. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Kaiden Rogers shovels snow from his driveway on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019 in Marshfield, Vt. A wintry mix has swept into northern New England, with hundreds of schools closed or delayed in Vermont due to snow, and slick conditions in New Hampshire and Maine. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)

A woman walking the half mile from Chicago’s Adler Planetarium to the Chicago Aquarium braces herself in the stiff wind and blowing snow off Lake Michigan, Monday, Nov. 11, 2019, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

A woman walking the half mile from the Chicago Aquarium to the Adler Planetarium fights a stiff wind inverting her umbrella in the blowing snow off Lake Michigan, Monday, Nov. 11, 2019, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

People walking the half mile from the Chicago Aquarium to the Adler Planetarium brace themselves as wind and snow blow Monday, Nov. 11, 2019, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Snow is piled high in front of the state Capitol in Bismarck, N.D. on Friday Oct. 11, 2019. North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum activated the state’s emergency plan due to what he called a crippling snowstorm that closed major highways and had farmers and ranchers bracing for huge crop and livestock losses. (AP Photo/James MacPherson)