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A deadly Arctic blast will continue sweeping across the U.S. on Monday and linger through at least midweek, subjecting nearly 100 million Americans to weather warnings while prolonging a bitter cold that has killed four people already, including an Oregon woman who died when a fire spread from an open-flame stove after a tree fell on to her RV. In the Dakotas and Montana, forecasters predict a wind chill of minus 70, which can cause frostbite almost instantly. Officials have implored members of the public to remain home. Similar temperatures will be felt from the Northern Rockies all the way...

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....

Yale anti-fossil fuel campaigners have indefinitely postponed a protest that was set for this weekend due to “unfavorable weather conditions and other logistical issues.”

You won't be hearing wind chill warnings in the Twin Cities this winter - but not because it won't get cold. Several National Weather Service offices, including the office in Chanhassen, are replacing wind chill warnings with what they're calling "extreme cold" warnings. "In large part, it's just a name change," said Todd Krause, warning coordination meteorologist for the weather service's Chanhassen office. Krause said warnings used to be issued if the wind chill factor dropped to minus 35. But if the temperature was minus 35 with no wind, no warning was issued. The new extreme cold warning will be...

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...