Posted on 02/04/2023 9:50:18 PM PST by Olog-hai
The Arctic air that descended on the Northeast on Saturday brought dangerously cold sub-zero temperatures and wind chills to the region, including a record-setting wind chill of –108°F (–78°C) on the summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire.
Temperatures got so low that authorities in Massachusetts took the unusual step of keeping the South Station transit hub open overnight so homeless people had a safe place to sleep. Several cities in the Northeast set or tied record low temperatures for the date, while the high winds brought down a tree branch on a car in western Massachusetts killing an infant.
“I can’t remember it being this cold, not since 2015,” said Gin Koo, 36, wrapped up in three shirts and a down jacket, as well as a hat and a hood, as he walked his Boston terrier, Bee, in Boston on Saturday morning. Even Bee, wrapped in a doggie coat, shivered. “I wouldn’t go out if I didn’t have to.”
Paul Butler, 45, who has been homeless since he was evicted in December 2021, took shelter in South Station.
“This is the coldest I ever, ever remember, and I worked the door at a bunch of clubs for 15 years,” said the former Marine. […]
The Mount Washington Observatory at the peak of the Northeast’s highest mountain, famous for its extreme weather conditions, also recorded an actual temperature of –47°F (–44°C), tying an observatory record set in 1934 and a wind gust of 127 mph (204 kmh).
Across the rest of the region, wind chills — the combined effect of wind and cold air on exposed skin — dropped to as low as –45°F to –50°F (–43°C to –45°C), the National Weather Service reported. …
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A bit nippy.
damn that gloBULL warming...
If we didn’t have gloBULL warming, it would really be cold.
Breakfast of Champions, Mt. Washington, NH Wind - Original Video 1990
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J37u_usbJHc
0:02 / 0:33
Man tossed by 109 mph winds atop Mount Washington
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWNaYd5Y8hw
The low end of the hurricane scale is 74 mph.
Was Al Gore giving a speech in New Hampshire?
And I was bitching @ -7deg this morning... Damn
We had -25 this morning - less than the worst we’ve seen. I built a darned good house; never fell below 74 inside.
Or it is a knit bippy?
That is very nearly the temperature at which carbon dioxide freezes / the temperature at which Dry Ice forms!
Regards,
The view on the way up is fantastic, but a good view from the peak is a crap-shoot.
Record low temperatures? It must be global warming.
Minus 35 celcius here in the East.
14 hour power outage
roads blocked by wind driven drifts 5 feet high.
Sacrificial virgin Greta Thunberg did not show although invited.
Also the globul schwarming crowd do not say a word , the lefty press is ignoring the cold meme.
How fast can you rapidly repeat say “Rum toddy!?”
The cold snap is pretty much done here in the Northeast. Temps will be back up in the 40s in most areas this afternoon.
I am going skiing today.
Temp is already 22.
Going to climb into the 40s this afternoon
Yikes!
Hmm... Winter.
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