Artic cold spawns windchills of -100 in New Hampshire, Maine

A number of chilly climate information have been shattered Friday because the Northeastern U.S. continues coping with temperatures within the single or damaging digits.

Driving the information: The life-threatening chilly is impacting tens of millions residing in New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island.

Menace degree: Excessive temperatures are forecast to stay into Saturday afternoon for a lot of the area. In Maine, wind chill warnings will stay in impact till 1 a.m. Sunday.

• Forecasts from the Nationwide Climate Service warn of “dangerously chilly windchills” ranging between -25°F to -65°F beneath zero.
• In Mount Washington, New Hampshire, a wind chill of -108°F and an precise temperature of -47°F have been reported on Friday night time. The -108°F is the bottom on document within the U.S. because the NWS started preserving information in 1933.

• Boston hit -10°F on Saturday morning, the coldest temperature within the metropolis since 1957.
• In jap Maine, a -62°F windchill was reported in Hancock County’s Cadillac Mountain to the Nationwide Climate Service. In Aroostook County, a -61°F windchill was additionally recorded on Saturday morning.
• The coldest air mass within the polar vortex is at present located above northern Maine. A Blizzard warning is in impact for Northern Penobscot and Southeast Aroostook Counties till this night.
• Temperatures for a lot of the Northeast area will heat into the 10s and 20s all through Saturday. Most of Maine and parts of northern New Hampshire will stay bitterly chilly till the vortex strikes off to the northeast on Sunday.