An Arctic wave has brought record cold weather to Cuba on Thursday (December 16) where residents used to mild winter temperatures bundled up using what they could find in their limited closets to confront lows as cold as 35 degrees Fahrenheit (1.9 degrees C.).
The cold front came down from a continental cold air mass that has dumped snow on much of the Midwest and eastern United States and brought ice alerts as far south as southern Florida where many schools were closed or had late starts due to the exceptional weather.
In Havana, residents wearing layers, coats and hats did their best to keep warm in the coldest weather recorded in 50 years.
“In my 65 years I have never felt such cold. It is too much,” said professor, Graciela Palacios.
Surprisingly cold weather was registered in all 41 Cuban departments with mercury dropping furthest in Colon, 160 kilometres (100 miles) east of Havana, where a low of 35 degrees Fahrenheit (1.9 degrees Centigrade) was recorded overnight Wednesday (December 15).
“I'm like, I can hardly walk. My fingers are numb. I am going crazy with this temperature change,” a state employee, Reina Diaz told Reuters in Havana.
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