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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You’re too kind...thank you! :-)
took a train up there once in the summer time..the drop in temperature was drastic.
like the planet Mars up there..
Music to accompany the bitter Cold Blast to New England:
“The Winds of Thor are Blowing Cold, Cold, Cold, Cold, Cold....”
No Quarter - Led Zeppelin Original 1976 release
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD8hJ-awjBc
“As a guy that worked Grave shift on a flight line in Minot”
Six years at Loring AFB and never once did the Flightline close down.
Amazing. It could have been minus 26 outside the front and back gates and it NEVER got below minus 26 on that darn flightline.
Six years at Loring AFB and never once did the Flightline close down.
Amazing. It could have been minus 26 (with windchill) outside the front and back gates and it NEVER got below minus 26 on that darn flightline.
I dropped my son off to some dance at High School (he didn’t have a date).
I pulled up and took a look at some of the gals and said to him “Not having a date is no big deal - you can just hire one of these hookers to dance with you.” He cracked up, shook his head as said “I know - right?”
This is not a night you want to be up there. I've been up there in August and saw snow and ice.
Johnny Carson said on the Tonight Show once:
“It’s been very cold in New York City lately. Quite cold.”
McMahon: How cold was it, Johnny?
Carson: It was so cold last night our crack meteorologist Frank Field went up on the roof to take a temperature check and he almost froze his NBC Peacock off.”
On the other side of Montana, here in WA, the summit of Mt. Rainier (14,410 feet) is forecast this weekend to see daytime temps around 3°f - 5°f, with a steady wind of 30 - 35 mph. Then,v Sunday night, wind increasing to 45.
All because I drive a full size pickup.
Dang…I hope y’all stay warm. That’s cold! 🥶
Minus 65 was our limit and they would stop updating temps at 0300. If it was really bad they’d break that rule and drag your butt inside ASAP. Dead troops aren’t much good.
Something Russians haven’t learned.
My specialty took 10 months of school.
and years of practical to get good at.
Hard to replace that, with a draft.
Woke up to -13 and a windchill of -34. Never seen it so cold here in my life. Damn Global Warming.
Schools in Central NY were closed yesterday because it was “too cold,” 10° F. So ridiculous. The staff just wanted another 3-day weekend.
Watch out for the frozen dog pee, New Yorkers. You might not recognize it, because it freezes even before it can run across the sidewalk in one treacherous stream as it usually does.
Frank Zappa
Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow
Well I turned around and I said ho, ho
And the northern lights commenced to glow
And she said, with a tear in her eye
Watch out where the huskies go,
And don’t you eat that yellow snow
Watch out where the huskies go,
And don’t you eat that yellow snow
And BAREFOOT in a TEESHIRT!
Been there, done that!
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