The wind chill on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire, dropped to minus 108 F on Friday. That's likely the lowest wind chill recorded in the U.S. since meteorologists began calculating wind chills, said climate scientist Brian Brettschneider.
A quick burst of Arctic air will barrel into the Northeast, sending temperatures well below freezing.The— what the temperature feels like — on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire, dropped to minus 108 F.
That's likely the lowest wind chill ever recorded in the United States since meteorologists began calculating wind chills, said Brian Brettschneider, an Alaskan climate scientist. Reconstructing wind chill based on historic records at Mount Washington shows the wind chill also could have been at minus 108 F or below on Jan. 22, 1885. The low that day — which still stands as the record low— was minus 50 F and the 24-hour average wind speed was 89 mph, Brettschneider said. That combination would produce a wind chill below minus 108 F, he said.
The temperature on Mount Washington dropped as low as minus 46 degrees F on Friday night, with 97 mph winds, the National Weather Service said. Record daily lows were set in Boston, Massachusetts , Providence, Rhode Island, and Bridgeport, Connecticut , the weather service said.
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