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Revelers stroll around US ice castle amid Arctic blast.

Video. US breaks record with its lowest ever wind-chill temperature at -78C

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An Arctic blast that brought "frostquakes" to parts of the United States saw the country record its lowest ever wind-chill temperature, meteorologists said Saturday. Atop Mount Washington in the northeastern state of New Hampshire, the wind-chill factor reached minus 78 degrees Celsius (or - 108 F).

Revelers stroll around an Ice Castle in North Woodstock, New Hampshire, as an Arctic blast wallops the Northeastern United States. 

"We were kind of discouraged from coming and they told us we'd be crazy if we came in such frigid temperatures," says Kim Elbe, a visitor form Massachusetts. "But we're here, so we must be crazy." There are similar Ice Castles in the US states of Utah, Minnesota, New York and Wisconsin. 

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