Posted on 02/03/2023 9:06:04 AM PST by 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.
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So much for global warming. . . .
Arctic blast barrels into U.S. Northeast, threatening record lows - the correct title -
Just imagine how bad it would it be without all the Man Made Global Warming threatening the planet with spontaneous combustion.
They’re finally getting winter?
Dangerous Arctic blast forecast to hit Northeast; some cities to see record-shattering cold , sounds like someone is on Drugs and has no clue it’s Winter
I miss the days of gorebull warming when I could harvest my tomatoes in mid january in fargo
Are they going to name this storm?
WEATHER WARNING:
Southerners are urged not to leave home unless absolutely necessary.
Northerners you will need your big coat
and gloves maybe even a hat
Just bitter cold. No snow.
Thank God for Gore-bull warming! Without it, it would get REALLY cold!
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Just went out to go my shopping. It’s 32 but that wind takes your breath away.
My wife got me this very warm winter hat last year—have not needed it all in the month of January—perfect for today and tomorrow though.
Then we warm up again (CT).
It was 25 a hour ago, now down to 18 with really strong winds in northern CT.
Fire up those gas guzzlers, folks. Let’s fight global cooling.
Ruh roh. Is it at ‘Blizzard bomb cyclone ice river’?
Oh no. It’s going to be cold and windy for a day or two. I remember far worse weather when I was a kid, hiking miles to the bus stop in the snow, uphill both ways...
Highest wind on Mt Washington…231 mph.
Great place to die.
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