The deadly arctic blast that settled over much of North America over the weekend is being blamed for at least four deaths.

Wind chills as cold as negative 58 degrees Fahrenheit were recorded Sunday in Hettinger, North Dakota, according to weather.com meteorologist Chris Dolce. The air temperature in Embarrass, Minnesota, was negative 45 degrees Sunday.

Two bodies showing signs of hypothermia were discovered Sunday in Milwaukee, including a man in his 50s found on the ground and a 34-year-old man, the Associated Press reports.

The frozen body of 52-year-old Clyde Chester Parsons was discovered on a porch by Charleston, West Virginia, police officers Sunday. Authorities believe substance abuse may have contributed to the homeless man's death.

In Bismarck, the body of a 52-year-old man was found near a dry-docked boat near the Missouri River, according to the Associated Press. It is believed the man may have died from exposure to the extreme cold. The man was originally thought to be homeless, but authorities later confirmed the unidentified man was not homeless.

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An ice storm hit the Chilliwack, Washington, area Friday night, downing trees and causing power outages. In neighboring Oregon, two people were killed in a fiery head-on crash involving two tractor trailers, and a juvenile was killed after a 20-year-old driver tried to pass and lost control on Interstate 90 near Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, late Friday.

Officers with New Hampshire Fish and Game rescued a party of snowmobilers, including a 10-year-old child, Saturday night after they became lost on trails north of Pittsburgh in subzero temperatures. Although the group returned home cold from the negative 18-degree weather, no one was harmed, officials say.

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Overnight Friday into Saturday afternoon, an additional 16 inches of lake effect snow fell on a record 65 inches that fell earlier in the week in Erie, Pennsylvania. So far, more than 119 inches has accumulated in Erie this month.

In Pennsylvania, a crash involving more than a dozen vehicles forced the closure of the Schuylkill Expressway. Several injuries were reported. Authorities are investigating the crash but say conditions were slippery at the time of the crash, AP reports.

In Toledo, a dog was found frozen solid curled up on a porch, The Toledo Blade reports. The area Humane Society is investigating, promising to pursue animal cruelty charges against the person or persons who neglected the dog.

“I don’t know how long she was out there,” Megan Brown, a cruelty investigator with the humane society, told the Blade. “She was frozen solid.”

In Massachusetts, two sharks died after going into "cold shock," according to officials with the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy. The sharks were found Thursday after they became stranded off the coast.

In Omaha, firefighters provided an escort for a wheelchair-bound woman who had been forced off a snowy sidewalk onto a busy thoroughfare in the dark, AP reports. The firefighters reportedly noticed the woman on the street after a run and escorted her safely to her home.