Winter winds brought extreme cold and ice-slicked roads to the Midwestern and Eastern United States on Monday, with the U.S. Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday and an ongoing government shutdown allowing many to heed official advice to stay indoors.
[...] “This is definitely dangerous, life-and-death kind of weather happening,” Chenard said. “Minnesota and Wisconsin will see temperatures in the negative 20s.”
“Boston will be just 3 degrees (Fahrenheit) this morning, with wind chills of minus 12 or more,” he said. “New York City and D.C. will be in that same range, maybe hitting the teens later today. It’ll be record or near-record cold.”
The NWS [(National Weather Service)] issued wind-chill advisories and warnings for more than 10 states, from North Dakota and to East Coast metropolitan centers.
Severe winter weather will be hitting Chicago over the next week, bringing “dangerous cold” with below zero temperatures before the wind chill, according to the National Weather Service.
An arctic front is expected to hit the area Thursday, with another following next week, dropping the wind chill as low as 30 degrees below zero. The Chicagoland area may even break records for cold temperatures in January, though it’s too early to predict the exact numbers, according to the weather service.
The first wave of “dangerous cold” is expected Thursday night into Friday morning, according to meteorologist Gino Izzi.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/dangerous-cold-to-blast-through-chicago-this-week/
(Score: 1) by oldeschool on Friday January 25 2019, @01:56PM (2 children)
"according to wikipedia" Wikipedia articles are written by volunteers -- if I had to choose between weather.com or some guy posting information on Wikipedia, I'll go with weather.com
Serious question, no trolling, do Wikipedia articles go through fact checks and vetting?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @02:43PM
Oh yeah, a very extensive fact check actually. They have around 8 billion real-time reviewers in 2019.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday January 26 2019, @02:49PM
I'm not especially trusting of weather.com. Try weather.gov - https://www.weather.gov/lot/January_Daily_Records_Chicago [weather.gov] Record low temps for January include -27 in 1985, -26 in 1984, -20 in 1897 - the list goes on. The same chart shows record highs for January - which has been +65 on a number of days, in different years. And, snowfall - looks like Jan 2 1999 they got 18.6 inches in one day.
IMO, weather.com likes to sensationalize the weather. Their integrity suffers for it.