Parts of North Dakota, West Virginia and Virginia are under extreme cold warnings as a surge of Arctic air hits this weekend.

Meanwhile, areas in South Carolina and North Carolina are under extreme cold watches , and parts of northern Ohio, central Pennsylvania and western New York are under freezing fog advisories .

It comes after NWS forecasters on Friday warned that "near record cold " along with "dangerous wind chills" is expected to track south from the Northern High Plains on Friday, spreading into the Central Plains and Ohio Valley on Saturday, then reaching the Mid-South and Mid-Atlantic on Sunday.

Why It Matters

The current polar vortex event is triggering some of the lowest temperatures of the season and is impacting Americans in multiple states.

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