BROWN: Still two weeks before Thanksgiving and it's feeling like the dead of winter in some places. Icy roads in Omaha, snow in the upper Midwest, single digits in the Rockies, and now the deep freeze is sweeping to the east and south. CNN's meteorologist Jennifer Gray has the cold, hard facts. Isn't it a little bit early to be this cold out, Jennifer?</s>JENNIFER GRAY, AMS METEOROLOGIST: It is very early, Pamela. And just when you expect for this to melt in a couple days, forget about it. Because temperatures are going to stay well below freezing in a lot of areas for the next seven days, at least. Casper, Wyoming, their low temperatures this morning so far, 25 below zero. Feeling even colder. Denver low temperature this morning, one degree below zero. Let's look outside in Denver, I'm feeling for you because look at that. Your high temperature today, five degrees. That's about 40 to 50 degrees below normal in some of these areas. Let's switch back to the maps, I'll show you these current temperatures and some of these areas are still falling. We're seeing temperatures 11 below zero in Cheyenne; Minneapolis at 18. When you factor in the windchill, it feels like 19 below zero in Denver, feeling like 18 in Chicago. And this cold weather is not going anywhere any time soon. Five degrees in Denver, your high temperature, 49 below normal. We'll be 17 degrees below normal in Minneapolis. As we go through tomorrow, that cold weather continues to sink down to the south and to the east. It will be affecting the East Coast by the end of the week. And do expect a little bit of lake-effect snow, Pamela, as we go through the next couple of days. But these cold temperatures are going to last through the end of next week at least.</s>BROWN: All right, so time to pull out the winter clothes, if you haven't already. I certainly haven't. Jennifer Gray, thank you so much. And the next hour of CNN NEWSROOM begins after a quick break.
Cold Weather Settles Across America