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Brrrr... From NYC to Washington, it's freezing again

January 23, 2014 11:54 IST


Photographs: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Northeastern United States is slowly getting back to normal despite the frigid temperatures and flight delays across the region after the heavy snows that fell within the past 48 hours forcing offices and schools to close from Washington to New York.

On Wednesday, 1,400 flights were cancelled by the storm and the ice-cold winds, although that was a far cry from the 3,000 that had to be cancelled on Tuesday along the Eastern Seaboard.

The storm is another polar cold front and the result of a weather occurrence that at the beginning of the year brought the storm dubbed Hercules followed by the southward move of the so-called polar vortex that froze two-thirds of the nation.

Although the snowfall is over, the near-record low temperatures continue to plague tens of millions of people from the Southeast to New England.

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Brrrr... From NYC to Washington, it's freezing again


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A snow and ice covered license plate is seen on a taxi in Times Square during a snow storm in Manhattan in New York

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Brrrr... From NYC to Washington, it's freezing again


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A snowman sits on a bridge in Central Park as snow falls in New York

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Brrrr... From NYC to Washington, it's freezing again


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Eric Jaksitis shovels out his car in Weymouth, Massachusetts

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Brrrr... From NYC to Washington, it's freezing again


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Jim Ryan, 65, uses a snow blower in front of his home the morning after a snow storm in Weymouth, Massachusetts

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Brrrr... From NYC to Washington, it's freezing again


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A bicycle sits covered by snow in the Brooklyn Heights section of the Borough of Brooklyn in New York

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Brrrr... From NYC to Washington, it's freezing again


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Children make their way to school near Union Square on January 22, 2014 in New York City

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Brrrr... From NYC to Washington, it's freezing again


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A snow blower clears a sidewalk next to a statue of Mahatma Gandhi at Union Square park

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Brrrr... From NYC to Washington, it's freezing again


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Robert Burck (Left), also known as the original 'Naked Cowboy', performs in a snow storm on the streets of Times Square, New York

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Brrrr... From NYC to Washington, it's freezing again


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A Northern Cardinal sits on a tree branch in falling snow in the New York City suburb of Nyack

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