WATCH: New Hampshire pounded by arctic blast, coldest wind chill ever measured

NEW HAMPSHIRE (WXIX) – Wind chill temperatures in Mount Washington are an astonishing -108 levels Friday evening as a consequence of an intense blast of arctic air.

That’s the coldest wind chill temp ever measured in america, together with Alaska, in keeping with FOX19 meteorologist Steve Horstmeyer.

Climate Underground has recorded -100 diploma wind chill occasions simply thrice in U.S. historical past, all on Mount Washington. The earlier report was -102.7 levels.

It’s additionally seemingly the coldest wind chill temperature ever measured on earth, although Horstmeyer provides it’s seemingly colder wind chill temperatures have occurred in locations like Antarctica with out being measured.

Frost chew at these wind chill temps units in lower than a minute lower than a minute after first publicity.

Actual temperatures are decrease than -45 levels. The earlier report is -47 levels.

For reference, the typical temperature on Mars is -80 levels.

Temperatures will proceed to fall within the space into Saturday.

Mount Washington sits 6,288-ft. tall in northern New Hampshire. a 231-mile wind gust was recorded there in 1934, the very best recognized measured wind gust wherever on the earth not produced by a twister or tropical cyclone.

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