At a Glance

Arctic air kept the South shivering through midweek.Dangerously cold wind chills impacted the South Thursday morning.This preceded a January thaw.

Arctic air returned east of the Rockies this past week, but another January thaw will bring relief from the shivering temperatures latethis week.

This current round of frigid temperatures has brought the coldest conditions of the season to numerous locations.

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Thursday morning, temperatures plummeted into the single-digits and teens in parts of the South, with 20s into central Florida and some 30s in South Florida. Tampa dropped below freezing for the first time in .

In fact, several locations across the South experienced the coldest temperatures since 1996 on Wednesday morning, including(7 degrees), (10 degrees), Baton Rouge, Louisiana (14 degrees), Biloxi, Mississippi (17 degrees), and (20 degrees).

In addition,, saw temperatures plummet to 5 degrees early Wednesday, which was the coldest morning there since Dec. 24, 1989.

Wind chills in the 20s to 40s below zero gripped parts of eastern Montana, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Iowa and Minnesota Monday morning and again early Tuesday. The bout of extreme cold was associated with a second Arctic blast that swept south and eastward. Wind chills in the single-digits above and below zero impactedthe South, including the northern Gulf Coast, on Wednesday morning.

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The first shot of Arctic air in this colder weather pattern arrived late last week and sent the actual air temperature as low as 47 degrees below zero Saturday morning in Cando, Langdon and Munich, North Dakota.

Several daily record lows were set on Tuesday, includingJoplin, Missouri (6 degrees below zero), Wichita Falls, Texas (6 degrees), Jackson, Mississippi (13 degrees), and Houston (26 degrees).

Additional daily record lows were set on Wednesday, including Waco, Texas (8 degrees), Hattiesburg, Mississippi (12 degrees), Lake Charles, Louisiana (19 degrees), Beaumont, Texas (19 degrees), New Orleans, (20 degrees) and Victoria, Texas (21 degrees).

Daily record-cold high temperatures were also set, includingMontgomery, Alabama (29 degrees), Jackson, Mississippi (29 degrees -tied), Hattiesburg, Mississippi (33 degrees), Galveston, Texas (36 degrees), and Corpus Christi, Texas (36 degrees).