Two million people may attend the New Year's celebration in Times Square.

New York City authorities expect to share about 2 million people in the Sunday night celebration at the Times Square in the night, despite the unusual frost, as it is expected to the temperature is down to 10 °c below zero, indicating that security measures will be very tight to ensure the safety of the celebrated The New Year.




"This annual event is one of the most common things people in the United States, as in the whole world, in New York," said the mayor of the city, Bill de Palacio, at a press conference.




The celebration of the beginning of the new Year in the Times Square has been a continuous annual tradition for 110 years, involving crowds from within the United States and tourists from around the world. This year, the weather will be very cold compared to last year, when the temperature is 0 º C.




"It is a moment of great pride for New York City," added de Plazio, adding that «NYC is one of the few cities in the world that can host such an event and provide this level of security».




For his part, the New York police chief, James O'Neill, reassured the security measures taken to ensure the safety of those celebrating the New year, although New York generally and Times Square, especially not susceptible to "direct and credible threat", are known.




"Yet there will be a stronger security spread than we have seen in recent years," he said.




O'Neill declined to disclose the number of police officers to be deployed this year, saying: Their number will be larger than it was last year.




The police commander explained that the security measures taken included the erection of roadblocks and trucks loaded with sand in order to prevent without any attack, the crowds were astonished by a car or truck, as it happened on Oct. 31 (October) in south Manhattan when eight people were killed on the run. The authorities, who wished to attend the Times Square, drew attention to the fact that they would have to undergo two consecutive inspections.




To this, a severe frost wave swept over most of the Northeast and the Midwest American coming from the Arctic, and temperatures fell to record records in many parts, and meteorological experts cautioned against the continuation of the harsh chill wave during the celebrations of the new Year.




The meteorological authority predicted that a cold wave sweeping the northwest Pacific Rim would cause snow to accumulate up to meters (Friday) in parts of Washington state and the northern Rocky Mountains.




Meteorological experts are likely to drop temperatures to 12 °c below zero; this is lower than the usual average during the day, according to Reuters.




The tag "#إيت_سو as a boy" issues the most frequently posted topics on Twitter in the United States the first of yesterday (Thursday).




The city of Teija in North Dakota was one of the coldest spots in the United States on the first day, with temperatures dropping to 26 °c below zero.




In the majority of areas in New England, North Pennsylvania and New York, the Meteorological Authority issued advice and warnings, with temperatures expected to fall below 12 °c.




In northern New York and Eastern Lake Ontario, the Meteorological Authority warned of "serious" blizzard temperatures ranging from 5 to 30 degrees below zero on the Fahrenheit scale yesterday.