The streets decorated with summer flowers give way to the changing of trees.

A record-breaking cold snap is moving through the eastern United States today after the passage of another front earlier in the week that forced a wardrobe change.

The striking course of a scorching summer is left behind by the presence of an autumn that already reveals the suggestions of a wise and capricious nature.

The streets filled with summer flowers give way to the shedding of trees whose leaves change from the prevailing intense green to the autumn tones. Oranges and reds, but the show is just beginning.

The country officially welcomes winter on December 21st, which will last for three months until another spring begins on March 19th.

Currently, From the Southern Plains of the United States eastward, temperatures are expected to fall near or below freezing.through the Lower Mississippi and Tennessee valleys and into the Appalachians.

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), temperatures in the city of St. Louis, for example, could fall to -3.3 degrees Celsius this Wednesday, which would equal the record high set on November 1st in 1954.

NOAA also warned that maximum temperatures on this first day of the 11th month of the year will be well below average.

Highs in the central and eastern United States are expected to remain between 4.4 and 10 degrees Celsius.

At this moment as the reporter writes, the temperature in Washington DC is 5.5 degrees and the sun’s rays are faintly visible.

Experts say more than 60 daily low temperature records could be reached or broken between today and tomorrow.

There are also warnings that an atmospheric river could lead to excessive rainfall in western Washington state and western Oregon during Wednesday and Thursday.

An atmospheric river is a vortex of moisture that helps transport saturated air from the tropics to higher latitudes, resulting in continuous rain or snowfall.

According to NOAA, such phenomena are typically between 400 and 600 kilometers wide and can reach more than 1,600 kilometers in length.

Meanwhile, scientists are increasingly talking about climate change in this world, which in many ways points to madness.

(With information from Prensa Latina)