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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: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday January 25 2019, @02:27PM (3 children)
It's 35F in Brooklyn right now, with an expected high of 37F today. Our local weather forecast has it staying in that range the next 4 days. It's been quite mild so far this winter.
There seems to be a disconnect between NWS's forecast and what we're seeing on the ground.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @03:06PM (1 child)
You think too much.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2019, @10:27PM
Hindcast is always more accurate than Forecast.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by istartedi on Friday January 25 2019, @05:42PM
Although the effect is less pronounced on the east coast, places near the ocean tend to have a more moderate climate. You might expect a continental air mass driven by a front to blow that out and make it irrelevant, but perhaps the counter-clockwise circulation around a low is going to pull enough warmer air in to spare Brooklyn the brunt.
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