wind chill

Living in New England can present its own set of weather challenges, especially when it comes to extreme weather. Temperatures increased by nearly 59 degrees from Saturday morning, when it was -10 degrees out, to 38 hours later on Sunday afternoon! This sets the record for largest temperature change recorded in a 38-hour time frame. The previous record was a…

We made it! We are over the arctic air and our temperatures have recuperated rapidly to the 40s again. But the wind is still trying and it’s gusting over 20 mph, meaning that the wind chill is mostly limited to the upper 30s. You definitely won’t need as many layers as you did on Saturday. The flow is out...

Today: Milder, highs in the 40s, mostly cloudy AM, then partly sunny. Breezy. Tonight: Mostly cloudy, lows in the lower 30s. SW wind 7-15 mph. Tomorrow: Variable clouds, highs in upper 40s, west wind becoming north late PM.

After record cold, milder air makes a quick return on Sunday. Skies will be mostly cloudy and high temperatures will be well into the middle 40’s. Sunday Night is mostly cloudy and not as cold. Lows in the lower and middle 30’s. On Monday a few more clouds for the Cape and Islands as a rain system stays off shore,…

Saturday night: Partly cloudy to mostly clear skies, still very cold. Lows in the upper teens, wind chills around 0.
Sunday: Partly sunny, and much warmer. Highs in the middle 40s. Sunday night: Mostly cloudy, not as cold. Lows in the lower and middle 30s.

The arctic air is slowly leaving New England and temperatures keep rising Saturday afternoon into the night. And lovers of the full moon will be able to appreciate the sky before more clouds fill in. Subzero wind chills will remain Saturday evening for the north country, but we’ll watch for lower teens by early morning Sunday in the south...

By Saturday at 7 a.m., temperatures had dipped as far down as -45 degrees, two degrees shy of the lowest ever, with a wind chill that made it feel like -109, a new wind chill record for the observatory.

New England experienced record-breaking cold as arctic air swept into the region Friday and Saturday, dropping temperatures below zero for millions. One place laid a claim for coldest in New England: Mount Washington Observatory in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, which made history nationwide. As of about 3 p.m. Friday, the observatory had already hit 36 degrees below zero, breaking the…

As a deep freeze continues to impact New England on Saturday morning, thousands of customers were in the dark across the region, although the number of outages was decreased between Friday night and early Saturday morning. There were more than 60,000 customers across New England without power around 8:30 p.m., but that number went down to around 12,000 around 8:30…

In one of the coldest and windiest places in the United States, a cat dozed through a historic storm Friday, with winds whipping up to 120 mph and the thermometer dropping far below -32 Fahrenheit. Nimbus, the cat who lives 6,288 feet above sea level at Mount Washington Observatory in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, was nice and warm while the…

As a daylong deep freeze settled onto New England Friday morning, several thousand power customers were in the dark across the region, though the worst of the outages may yet be to come. There were more than 60,000 customers across New England without power around 8:30 p.m., but that number went down to around 25,000 later Friday night. The thermometer…

An arctic airmass will move into the region Friday, and there’s plenty to you can do to be prepared for the extreme cold that will make it feel around 30 degrees below zero. To keep yourself and your loved ones safe, follow these tips: First, you want to make sure you have enough heating oil to get through the cold…

Our First Alert weather headlines this week features extreme cold, with the lowest wind chills since Valentine’s Day 2016. Other than hearing what it will feel like, we thought this would be an important time to explain what this wind chill actually is. During winter and times of extreme cold, cities and municipalities make decisions based upon these extreme temperatures….