of ice accumulation with some locations receiving over or even, in localized areas, of ice; isolated power outages occurred, and multiple trees and tree limbs were broken and/or pulled down by the weight of the ice. Heavy icing continued along the Interstate 44 corridor and parts of Osage County in Oklahoma; in these areas, there were reports of of ice, and in southeastern Oklahoma and extreme northwestern Arkansas, there were lesser reports of of ice. Additional ice totals occurred in Southeast Kansas, where there were isolated locations which received ice accumulations of as high as . Early January blizzard Early 2014 cold wave 2014 began on an active note, with a major winter storm affecting much of the United States. Between of snow fell across a wide area spreading from central Missouri across Illinois and Indiana to Lower Michigan. Snowfall totals of near were recorded across northern Indiana, and additional accumulations occurred downwind from the major Great Lakes. This storm was accompanied by some of the coldest temperatures to affect the Central and Eastern United States in 20 years. Upper flow which was meridional all the way up to the Arctic Circle provided a direct path for cold air advection to occur southward to the United States. The average temperature of the contiguous United States was , the coldest day since January 12–13, 1997 and the 40th-coldest day in the United States since 1900. During the event, wind chills dropped as low as the -60s °F (-50s °C) across the Northern High Plains. The event was short-lived, with the portion of the polar vortex that had traveled across the Great Lakes lifting northeastward into Quebec soon after. Late January blizzard On January 20, a moisture-starved Alberta clipper zipped through the Upper Midwest, putting down anywhere from . As it moved towards the East Coast, it began to intensify and snowfall began to spread from areas like Washington D.C. to Hartford, Connecticut. A surface low formed and began to track northwards, with winds increasing along the coastline, causing blizzard conditions. It then continued to rapidly intensify before reaching a peak of . Snowfall totals from this storm ranged anywhere from . The storm was also proceeded by more cold temperatures as well. Late January southern winter storm Early on January 27, a cold front crossed into the Gulf of Mexico, with temperatures ahead of the front in Texas and Louisiana in