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Several blasts of arctic air have gripped the eastern two-thirds of the country since the beginning of the new year. In the South, the extreme cold has been threatening crops, and temperatures tonight could be the most damaging for some. While temperatures will rebound throughout the upcoming week, a late-week rain storm could cause even more damage to Southern crops. Tonight Will Be Most Damaging in Florida So far, citrus-growers in Florida have gotten by with only light damage following several nights of sub-freezing temperatures over the past week. Tonight will likely prove more destructive as temperatures drop to the...

Take a sweater. And a parka. And gloves and boots and a hat and a scarf and long underwear and any other warm thing you can think of. Today will be spectacularly, brutally cold and beastly windy. Tonight will be worse and Friday will be about as harsh. Northern New England will be the coldest place in the country today and Friday, Bob Marine, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Gray, said Wednesday. That means the warmest Portland will get is about 10 degress."You combine the wind and temperatures and wind chills are going to be around minus...

JAY, Vt. – The Northeast has been seized by extreme cold for more than a week now, with wind chill readings so low that even hardy Vermonters are thinking twice about going outside. “It will take a special attitude to be out there today,” said Bill Stenger, general manager of the Jay Peak ski area, where the afternoon temperature was 14 below zero.Arctic air has been blowing through the Northeast for the past week, creating wind chills as low as minus 60. The last time the mercury in New York City rose above freezing was Jan. 13 – eight icy...

Weather watchers agree that it’s best if everyone think warm thoughts and try to focus on indoor recreation over the next two days. That’s because, along with sub-zero temperatures, tonight brings with it — for the second night in a row — another wind-chill advisory from the National Weather Service for everyone in the Granite State. “We’re looking at highs only in the teens, and the lows will be sub-zero everywhere in New Hampshire, ranging from 20 below (tonight) in the mountains to maybe 5 below along the coast,” said meteorologist Bob Marine, who works for the National Weather Service...