Dangerous Arctic blast forecast to hit Northeast; some cities to see record-shattering cold

National Post ^ | Feb 03, 2023 | Frank Mcgurty and Rich Mckay

[george76]

A powerful arctic blast swept into the U.S. Northeast on Friday, threatening to push temperatures to record lows in many spots, including New Hampshire’s Mount Washington, where the wind chill could drop to -110 degrees Fahrenheit ...

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Boston and Worcester, the two largest cities in New England, were among the school districts to close on Friday as administrators worried about the risk of hypothermia and frostbite as children waited for buses or walked to school.

The bitter cold in the forecast forced a rare closing of a floating museum that presents a daily re-enactment of the 1773 Boston Tea Party, when a band of colonists disguised as Native Americans tossed crates of tea taxed by the king into the harbor. “It’s too cold for that, we’re closed,” a receptionist at the museum said on Friday.

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In Mount Washington State Park, atop the Northeast’s highest peak, temperatures were expected to fall to a record low of -50 F (-46 C) later Friday, officials for the New Hampshire park service said. By comparison, air temperatures in Eureka, Canada’s northernmost Arctic weather station, were hovering at -41 F (-41 C) on Friday morning.

The wind chill, which describes the combined effect of wind and cold temperatures on exposed skin, could register at -110 F (-79 C) at Mount Washington’s peak, typically one of the coldest places in the country.

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While the Northeast was hunkering down, Texas and ... the aftermath of a deadly winter ice storm that brought days of freezing rain, sleet and ice, causing massive power outages and dangerously icy roads.

More than 300,000 homes and businesses in Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee remained without power on Friday, according to Poweroutage.us, after ice toppled power lines and trees.

[Antoninus]

BREAKING NEWS: WINTER IS COLD IN NEW ENGLAND.

[SIDENET]

I'm in Maine and it is currently 3° F and we are headed to an overnight low of -17°.

Winds are howling, but at least it's a nice sunny day. Not a cloud in sight.

Temps have been falling steadily since last night. At 2:00 this morning, we were at 36°.

[allendale]

People are woefully unprepared for sub zero temperatures in Boston. Suspect there will be a high death rate this weekend.

[Col Frank Slade]

Hate to be the guy at the Mt Washington weather station step outside to pee.

[Ezekiel]

We fashioned a play yard in the cellar for the chickens.

Kind of like a Holiday Hen Express.

The music’s on and the girls are having fun, scratchin’ to the Oldies.

[jerod]

Global Warming? Nope... It's 'climate change'.

Summers hotter, winters colder, rains harder, doesn't rain, blows harder, doesn't blow, more hurricanes, less hurricanes, more earthquakes, less earthquakes, more volcanos, less volcanos... It's all Climate Change.

See that snow on the top of Mount Kilimanjaro below.

There is snow on that mountain which is situated 210 miles below the equator because of climate change.

Al Gore said that snow would be gone by 2016 but it didn't go away because of 'climate change'. It's all the fault of climate change. Got it?

[Roadrunner383]

After decades of global warming, how are cold temperature records being broken? I asked this of a global warmist coworker 25 years ago, he had no answer.

[ClearCase_guy]

I hit the gym this morning at 5 AM. It was 7 degrees and very windy. I walked across the parking lot in my shorts and a t-shirt —because I’m a badass.

[wardaddy]

Pajamas it’s crazy

Same thing in Nashville

Or the girls wear tights that showcase their butts and tacos

How do boys pay attention

I sure couldn’t

[Right Brigade]

Well the bus stop was warmer than the box we lived in.

[Bernard]

If you park enough EV’s close together, could the resulting fire from one of them spontaneously catching fire be enough to warm the area and chase the cold air away?

[dfwgator]

I hit the gym this morning at 5 AM. It was 7 degrees and very windy. I walked across the parking lot in my shorts and a t-shirt —because I’m a badass.

[Sacajaweau]

We have these blasts occasionally. I remember one circa 1980...because I lit the fireplace and turned the sofa to face it.

[Steven Scharf]

What is the factors that lead to Mt. Washington to be more cold and windy than the average mountain in New England?

Nothing except it is the highest peak in New England. Has a road to the top and a longtime weather station. If it was on top of Mount Reagan, then that would be the refence point.

As per Wiki:
The mountain is named for Henry Clay, 19th-century senator and U.S. Secretary of State from Kentucky, known as “The Great Compromiser”. In 2003, the New Hampshire state legislature, participating in a Reagan Legacy project, made it state law that Mt. Clay “shall hereafter be called and known as Mount Reagan,” after President Ronald Reagan. The legal force of this is limited to actions by the state of New Hampshire. The U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN) voted in May 2010 not to change the name of the mountain. Maps used in connection with foot travel in the Presidentials are typically published by the U.S. Geological Survey (which adheres by law to BGN’s naming), and by the Appalachian Mountain Club and two New England companies, all three of whom as of 2010 use “Clay” and make no mention of “Reagan”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Clay

I just found this referrence by accident.

[slapshot]

In Wisconsin, we call this weather in February “Tuesday.”

[Alas Babylon!]

It sticks up far higher than all the rest. Air coming out of the Northwest from Hudson Bay in Canada has nothing but flats and low hills to pass over for a thousand or more miles.

They say you can smell the seal and polar bear poop from up there!

[pas]

This is nothing to joke about. Soon polar bears will be wandering around Boston eating people because it is too cold up north. This global warming causes extreme cold.

[Capt. Tom]

my forcast for Scituate Mass on the coast has wind factor that will make it seem colder.

TODAY
FRI 02/03
HIGH 21

Sunshine and clouds mixed. High 21F. Winds WNW at 15 to 25 mph. Winds could occasionally gust over 40 mph.

TONIGHT
FRI 02/03
LOW -7
Clear to partly cloudy. Low -7F. Winds NW at 15 to 25 mph. Higher wind gusts possible.

TOMORROW
SAT 02/04
HIGH 18 | 14 °F0% Precip. / 0 in
Except for a few afternoon clouds, mainly sunny. High 18F. Winds W at 10 to 20 mph.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

It’s been happening for years in New England. It’s called the Montreal Express.

[mware]

Stay warm my FRiend.