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Winter is coming for many this week, with the sterling significant snow of the season for some, and freezing temperatures for millions of others.

It was just last week we were talking throughout cute fall temperatures, and now someone has flipped a switch to winter. This will be - by far - the coldest air of the season to this point.

So brace yourself, as I am planning to do.

“Afternoon highs immediately will definitely feel cold!” the National Weather Service office in Nashville said.

Along with temperatures continuing 15-25 degrees below normal for much of the East, winds will be net, making it feel even colder. Nashville will only get into the mid-50s to smart around 60 today, with a bone-chilling wind chill.

Atlanta will be colder than New York City on Tuesday, with highs only making it to the low 50s.

Tuesday night will be even colder, with lows in the 20s as far south as divides of Arkansas and Tennessee.

“Tuesday night will be the coldest night … with all locations required to be below freezing,” the weather service in Nashville said. “Even Nashville metro should freeze.”

The Weather Prediction Center said many cool daytime high and overnight low temperature records could be obsolete because of the cold air Monday and Tuesday.

“This may be the sterling freeze of the season for many places across the Central Plains, Middle Mississippi Valley and Ohio/Tennessee Valleys which will crashes sensitive crops/livestock,” the Weather Prediction Center said.

Here are some the majority cities expecting lows below freezing this week:

See how low the temperatures will drop where you live.

In the Upper Midwest, there will be even bigger impacts. A winter storm warning is in attain for portions of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin, where 4-8 inches of snow could fall through Wednesday.

Except, it won’t be shocking to see an isolated area or two get as much as a foot of snow with the potent early-season rules.

“Guidance stays to indicate potentially historic early-season snowfall across the eastern UP, which when combined with northerly winds to 50 mph and lingering fall foliage could stop in widespread power outages,” the weather service in Marquette narrated.