The Big Chill on the East Coast

A wall of cold air is set up perfectly along the East Coast and continues to deliver bone-chilling cold into the Deep South. All throughout Dixie, morning temperatures will hover in the 20's with wind chills as low as the single digits at times.

By the afternoon, temperatures will only warm up into the middle 30's. The record low maximum for the date is 34 degrees - our forecast high is 35. But the real problem will be the wind, which will whip at 15 to 25 mph at times creating afternoon wind chills in the 20's.

Overnight, we'll see lows dip below 20 degrees. Wind chills will again be right around 10 degrees with some places seeing single digit readings.

The cold air is even blowing as far south as Florida.

New record temperatures were set across South Florida Tuesday morning as the Arctic blast of cold air blew into the region.

Palm Beach International Airport, a new record low this morning 32 broke the old record of 33 set in 1966.

Vero Beach set a new record low this morning of 26, breaking the old record of 28 set in 1966!

There's another freeze warning tonight, with record lows possible again. The records tonight: PBIA -- 36 degrees; Vero Beach -- 35.

Bundle up.

Midwest Digging out After Winter Storm

Close to two feet of snow in some areas, roads closed, flights at airports delayed.

Such is life in the nation's heartland during the winter months.

Metrodome Roof Collapses in Minneapolis

Information out of Minnesota this morning says the roof of the Metrodome in downtown Minneapolis has apparently collapsed. Witnesses say the roof is no longer visible above the dome's concrete bowl.

The Vikings were to host the New York Giants in an important NFC game today, but due to the winter weather, the Giants have been stuck for a day in Kansas City.  On Sunday, word came out that the game would be moved to Monday night.  Now, it is not known where, or when this game will take place.

The game should not be played in New York, that would give the Giants 9 home games, when every other team has 8.

This was a picture from 2007 when the roof deflated.

Update on Sunday, December 12, 2010 at 9:00AM by Rick C.Limpert

Here is video shot by KARE 11 in the Twin Cities early this morning showing the roof, or lack of one at the Metrodome.  Officials are calling it a partial collaspe.  It began to collaspe early this morning, has to be due to the 18+ inches of snow.

Update on Sunday, December 12, 2010 at 11:04AM by Rick C.Limpert

ESPN reporting that there are at least 2 tears in the roof of the Metrodome.  The Vikings/Giants game will not be played in Minnesota.  The game will be played Monday Night, at a site to be determined.  Possibilities include Detroit, Indianapolis or New Orleans.  I would guess Detroit would be the most likely location.

Update on Sunday, December 12, 2010 at 2:34PM by Rick C.Limpert

Here is an even more dramatic video of the roff of the Metrodome tearing and collasping because of the snow.  It was shot from a camera inside the dome.

20 Inches of Snow, And it's Not Winter Yet

A powerful snowstorm socked the upper Midwest on Saturday with as much as 20 inches of snow, forcing authorities to close state roads across five states as heavy winds made for treacherous driving conditions.

The storm started Friday in the Rocky Mountains and swept overnight into northern Nebraska and Iowa. By Saturday morning, the blizzard hit eastern South Dakota, northwest Iowa and southwest Minnesota.

Winter storm advisories were posted Saturday for parts of northern Illinois, warning of blizzard conditions and winds of up to 50 mph overnight in the Quad Cities area.

With near whiteout conditions in many areas, Minnesota transportation officials closed westbound Interstate 90 from Albert Lea to the South Dakota border, pulled plows off roads in the southern part of the state and told drivers to stay home.

Between 8 and 18 inches of snow were expected in Minnesota, with the heaviest snowfall stretching from near Hutchinson and Mankato to the Twin Cities. Heavy snow also was falling in northern Iowa, where up to 10 inches were expected, and eastern South Dakota, where 5 to 8 inches were forecast.

The New York Giants are still trying to get to Minnesota for their game with the Vikings. The Giants-Vikings game was moved to Monday night because Minnesota had at least 15 inches of snow and wind gusting over 30 mph and the New York team was waiting it out in Kansas City. With close to a foot-and-a-half of blowing snow accumulating in the Twin Cities area throughout the day Saturday, the Giants’ charter flight was diverted to Kansas City instead. After hanging out in the terminal for a bit, the team then settled in to spend the night there, with an initial plan in place to fly to Minnesota on Sunday morning and make it to the stadium in time for regularly scheduled 1 p.m. EST kickoff. But the NFL made the announcement later Saturday night that the game was being moved.

Giants spokesman Pat Hanlon said on Twitter the team "monitored weather all week" and moved up the departure time by 3 1/2 hours Saturday. That didn’t prove to be enough of a head start to make it to Minneapolis before the airport shut down all runways.

Landslides Bury Homes and People in Colombia

More than 100 people were feared dead following a landslide that buried a poor area during Colombia's heaviest rains in decades.

The rains that triggered Sunday's landslide in the Bello, a suburb of Medellin in Antioquia state, have also driven thousands from their homes, damaged coffee and flower crops and blocked the two-lane highways that are mountainous Colombia's commercial backbone.

Rescuers have so far recovered 23 bodies, including 11 children.

Authorities said nine of the children were playing in a park when the landslide struck.

Last year, 110 people died in rainfall-related calamities, while 48 were killed in 2008, Colombian Red Cross director of national relief operations Carlos Ivan Marquez said.

This year's rains - exacerbated by the La Nina weather phenomenon - are the heaviest in the 42 years since the country's weather service was created and started keeping records, agency director Ricardo Lozano said.

They prompted President Juan Manuel Santos to announce he was cancelling a planned trip to Cancun, Mexico, to take part in global climate talks.