Icy blast just gets worse (& snowier)

Maine to 14 degrees in Atlanta, the city often described as HotLanta.

At least three people have died in the Midwest due to subzero temperatures, which authorities said have been compounded by bonerattling wind chills.

Warnings from the National Weather Service covered a swath of the country, hitting basically everywhere east of Montana and north of Texas.

That included much of the South, where New Orleans chilled to 26 degrees early Tuesday . Alabama saw low temperatures ranging from 8 to 20 degrees Tuesday morning throughout the state.

It was one of several Southern states — along with Louisiana and Mississippi — to open warming shelters as below-freezing temperatures gripped the comparatively warm region.

Texas, where snow hit even Austin, was plagued with icy roads, leading to accidents throughout the Lone Star state.

Students in Indianapolis who were supposed to go back after winter break got an extra day off Tuesday, because below-zero temperatures closed schools.

The 15 below zero recorded in Omaha, Neb., late Sunday shattered a 133-year-old record for the city.

At least two deaths in Milwaukee have been attributed to the frigid weather. The Milwaukee County medical examiner’s office said bodies of a 34-year-old man and another man in his 50s, both discovered Sunday, had signs of hypothermia.

A 52-year-old man’s frozen body was found Saturday near the Missouri River in Bismarck, N.D.

The storage-freezer feeling returns to New York on Thursday night ahead a bitterly cold weekend where temperatures won’t climb out of the teens.

And Saturday’s expected low will be a brisk 4 degrees.