Snow pounds Midwest as region braces for coldest temperatures in decades

A snowstorm is pounding the Midwest Monday as the Midwest and Northeast brace for brutally cold temperatures this week.

The Midwest may see its coldest air since the mid-1990s early Wednesday.

In Minnesota, wind chills could be as low as minus 35 degrees Monday night and as low as minus 65 degrees Tuesday into Thursday morning, the National Weather Service warned.

Following that winter storm, extremely dangerous cold weather is headed to the Midwest and Northeast.

Several daily record lows are expected to be broken in the Midwest on Wednesday morning, where temperatures may be the lowest in over 20 years.

Winds chills are forecast to plummet Wednesday to minus 51 in Minneapolis, minus 47 degrees Chicago, minus 32 in Detroit and minus 43 in Des Moines.

That cold air is likely to spread into the Gulf Coast and East Coast, where the wind chill in Atlanta may reach 16 degrees and New York City's wind chill may be just 1 degree.