Wind-chill warnings were posted for most of New York state and all the New England region. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WORCESTER, United States - A powerful Arctic blast swept into the US north-east on Friday, pushing temperatures to perilously low levels across the region.
But the combination of numbing cold and biting winds gripping the north-east would pose life-threatening conditions well into Saturday. The bitter cold forced a rare closing of a floating museum that presents a daily re-enactment of the 1773 Boston Tea Party, when a band of colonists disguised as Native Americans tossed crates of tea taxed by the king into Boston Harbor in protest.Early on Friday, the Arctic surge flowing into the United States from eastern Canada was centred over the US Plains, weather service forecaster Bob Oravec said.
By comparison, air temperatures in Eureka, Canada’s northernmost Arctic weather station, were hovering at -41 deg C on Friday morning. “Yeah, Mainers are pretty hardy, but talk to me tomorrow, and we’ll see if we’re busy or not,” she said, looking ahead to Saturday morning, when temperatures were expected to drop to -28 deg C.More On This TopicWhile the north-east was hunkering down, Texas and parts of the South were starting to warm up in the aftermath of a deadly winter ice storm that brought days of freezing rain, sleet and ice, causing massive power outages and dangerously icy roads.
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