Meteorologists warned that "some of the coldest" temperatures across the entire globe will cover the central and eastern US over the weekend.

Weather Trader meteorologist Ryan Maue said the planet's most extreme cold air will be barreling into the central and eastern United States this coming weekend "like a wrecking ball."

In a post on X on December 9, Maue called it a "textbook 'Polar Vortex' mega-dump of western Canadian cold."

Meanwhile, climatologist Judah Cohen, a research scientist at MIT, said in an email to USA TODAY , "Some of the coldest, if not the coldest, temperatures across the entire globe will cover the central and eastern US over the weekend and into early next week."

"It also seems that the most expansive and continuous area of below normal temperatures across the

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