Weather security

Cold enough to freeze your dog in much of US

The northern U.S. was in the throes of a brutal cold snap overnight Thursday into Friday morning, with forecasters issuing warnings of hypothermia and frostbite as temperatures remain low through New Year's weekend.

As the Arctic blast spread across the region, a dog was found frozen to death on a porch in Ohio, the Toledo Blade reported.

“I don’t know how long she was out there,” Megan Brown, a cruelty investigator with the local Humane Society, told the paper. “She was frozen solid.”

The Department of Energy projected a rise in fuel costs, potentially hurting low-income Americans.

In North Carolina, Gov. Roy Cooper looked to prevent price gouging by signing an emergency declaration to loosen restrictions on transporting heating fuel, allowing it to be more easily distributed.

In the Northeast, Adam Gill, a staffer at a weather observatory in New Hampshire, took video as he poured boiling water out of a pitcher and watched it immediately turn into snow.