Metro Detroiters faced with low wind chills should bundle up and avoid long periods outdoors, according to the weather service.
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NEW YORK (AP) The National Weather Service says the coldest air mass of the winter may hit the Eastern U.S. this weekend.
NWS issued a wind chill warning from midnight to 10 a.m. Sunday, with wind chills as low as 40 below zero from Plymouth to Lebanon. The wind has an effect of moving heat away from the body, making it feel even colder than what the ambient air temperature reads.
-A Wind Chill Warning from 6 a.m. Saturday to 1 p.m. Sunday for Sussex county. A strong northwesterly wind will keep the wind chill below zero all day tomorrow. On Cape Cod and the Islands, the weather system will being snowfall, which expected to total 3 to 4 inches, overnight Friday. High near 36. Southeast wind 5 to 7 miles per hour becoming north in the afternoon.
As slightly warmer tries to return on Sunday, a chance of snow enters the forecast.
WBUR’s meteorologist David Epstein’s told our Newscast Unit that overnight there may be a few snow showers, but the weather will be mostly cloudy and bitterly cold. Wind chills when you wake up will be in the negatives.
This Afternoon: Partly sunny and cold with scattered flurries or light snow possible. Because of high winds, all crane operations were stopped on Saturday. Chance of precipitation is 20 percent.
For President’s Day we should have a high in the mid 30s with some snow changing to rain later in the day.
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It’s back to a mix of sun and cloud on Thursday with highs of -16 C to -13 C across southern Manitoba. In addition, record low high temperatures will be possible in parts of the Northeast as well.
