Sea smoke is seen off the ocean in Massachusetts, February 4, 2023, as an arctic front brings bitterly cold weather.
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 minus 78 degrees Celsius on the summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire.
In addition to the U.S. record low wind chill, the Mount Washington Observatory at the peak of the Northeast's highest mountain, famous for its extreme weather conditions, recorded an actual temperature of minus 44 C, tying an observatory record set in 1934, while winds gusted to 204 kilometers per hour.
Across the rest of the region, wind chills — the combined effect of wind and cold air on exposed skin — dropped to minus 43 to minus 45 C, the National Weather Service reported.
The current method to measure wind chill has been used since 2001.
"This is just kind of an Arctic intrusion," said Stephen Baron, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Gray, Maine. "Sometimes in the winter the Jetstream dips and the Arctic oscillation allows the cold air to come into our area for a day or two." (Reuters/AP)
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