The polar vortex making it’s way across the United States is breaking many new records. The frigid temperatures left many people stranded on trains and in airports. Even polar bears and penguins are taking shelter indoors to escape the cold.

The weather left five hundred people stranded on three Amtrak trains overnight in Northern Illinois. At Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo, Anana, a polar bear that never grew the thick layer of fat that bears in the arctic, had to be brought inside to take shelter from the harsh weather. At the National Aviary in Pittsburgh, bald eagles and African penguins, who are used to cold climates, had to be brought in as well.

New York City saw a record low of four degrees in Central Park on Tuesday breaking the record of six degrees set in 1896. That is not quite as bad as the all-time low of negative fifteen in 1934, but with wind chill temperatures it still felt well below zero.

Temperatures plummeted somewhere in all fifty states Tuesday morning due to the arctic blast hovering like an ice chest according to meteorologist Dave Hennen. Despite the low temperatures in Florida, no crops were damaged, reported the Fruit and Vegetable association to CNN.

Hard freeze warnings were issued from eastern Texas to the Florida Panhandle. Authorities have blamed thirteen deaths on this cold winter storm, eleven being from car accidents and three involving hypothermia.

By Thursday most of the country’s weather should be back to normal and maybe even a bit higher said meteorologist Brandon Miller.