Arctic explosion will bring ‘dangerously cold’ temperatures to the northeast

Forecasters have warned that a powerful Arctic blast will bring “dangerously cold winds” to the northeast until Saturday evening, as well as a snowstorm in northern Maine.

“Temperatures will be 10 to 30 degrees below average in parts of the northeast and coastal mid-Atlantic,” the National Weather Service bulletin said early Saturday.

Wind chill warnings and advisories are in place in New York State and New England, he said.

The weather service added that strong winds could cause power outages and property damage over the northern front of the Rocky Mountains and the High Plains.

This comes after temperatures hit a dangerous low in the region on Friday. At the Mount Washington Observatory in New Hampshire, where winds blow as cold as minus 101 degrees Fahrenheit. was recorded.

Elsewhere, schools in Boston and Worcester, Massachusetts, two of New England’s largest cities, were among those closed Friday due to concerns about the risk of hypothermia and frostbite to children walking to school or waiting for buses.

With the weather service predicting a cold snap of minus 30 to 40 degrees Fahrenheit in northern Massachusetts on Saturday, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu declared a state of emergency through Sunday and opened heating centers to help the city’s more than 650,000 residents cope.

In Southwick, Massachusetts, near Springfield, a hurricane is blamed for the death of an infant who died when the wind knocked down a fallen tree and hit a vehicle carrying the child. The 23-year-old mother of the infant suffered serious injuries. The gender and age of the child were not immediately available.

In New York, a Code Blue alert has been activated, which signals sub-zero temperatures and the opening of shelters.

Single-digit temperatures and temperatures of 10 to 15 degrees below zero are predicted for the city and suburbs on Saturday morning, according to the New York office of the National Weather Service.

More than 11,000 homes in New York State were without power early Saturday and more than 5,000 in Maine, according to poweroutage.us.

While the Northeast lay low, Texas and parts of the South began to warm up after a deadly winter ice storm brought days of freezing rain, sleet and ice, leading to massive power outages and dangerous road icing.

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