Northeast Forecast to Suffer Lowest Temperatures in 20 Years

[brooklynite]

Source: NBC News

Millions of Americans across the Northeast were warned by forecasters to prepare this weekend for some of the coldest temperatures in two decades.

The dangerously bitter conditions are expected to come on the back of yet another winter storm bringing more snow, ice, and high winds across the Northeast beginning Saturday.

The cold will start to creep in early Friday, according to The Weather Channel, and the mercury is expected to plummet until it hits the low single digits in New York City early on Monday. With the windchill forecast between -15 F and -30 F, it is set to be "one of the coldest air masses we have seen in the Northeast in 20 years," according to Weather Channel senior meteorologist Michael Palmer.

Boston, which has been buried by a series of snowstorms in recent weeks, is set to dip below zero early Monday, and there is an "outside chance" the same will happen in New York for the first time since 1994.



Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/northeast-forecast-suffer-lowest-temperatures-20-years-n305601

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Boston may be getting ANOTHER foot...

[leftynyc]

1. This fellow New Yorker

(and Brooklyn born) just peeled off several layers after getting to the office - very cold and windy outside. Depressing to see it's going to get even colder but my sympathy is reserved for New England who is going to also get pounded with another very significant snowstorm.

[Lurks Often]

2. Sucks to be me

Today's my day to volunteer to help walk dogs at the local shelter

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

3. Please be careful

and watch those poor babies you have to walk.

[Lurks Often]

4. I'll be ok, I know how to dress for this weather

and the dog I'll probably end up with won't want to be out for the full hour anyway.

[rpannier]

7. Your concern sounds like a trick

It sounds more like another plan to take over the world

[MannyGoldstein]

5. Good news!

The snow will be the fluffy stuff thanks to the cold.

[ananda]

6. Your snowglobe is always half full!

[meow2u3]

13. That'll make it easier to shovel

All I gotta do is push the snow aside and the front sidewalk is cleared.

The back, that's another story. My walkway from my kitchen to the car is one sheet of ice underneath packed snow, in which only my boots give my traction. My roomies, not so much--they don't have boots.

[snooper2]

19. The fluffy stuff isn't running, you are going to get stuck with total wet-ness

[Hoppy]

8. This will give Pigboy a chance to explain how global warming is a fraud.

[Lucky Luciano]

10. Except Los Angeles will be in the 80s all week! nt

[greiner3]

26. In a few days Fairbanks (AK) as I did not know there were other states with the same named cities;

Will be 15-20 degrees warmer than normal and will last for up to 2 weeks.

Barrow will see the same, but as their normal day temps are -8 and night temps are -20 do you think any non-native will consider this a heat wave?

Also, since there are not nearly as cold temps up there, I see the Arctic ice taking a further 'hit' and decreasing even further.

THIS won't be reported on FOX or your Pigboy's broadcast.

[mountain grammy]

9. Let the Idiocracy begin on Fox news...

See, all that crap about global warming is just nonsense, because here's winter and it's cold and snowing and blah, blah, blah..

Every news media outlet in the country should have daily interviews with climate scientists explaining this severe weather and the man made activities that are causing it. Every extreme weather event, including ongoing droughts and the melting of sea ice, should be reported and explained, in America and everywhere else on the planet. We are currently hell bent for self extinction.

But Benghazi..................

[smirkymonkey]

11. This is going down as the worst winter that I can ever remember.

I live in Boston, btw, so maybe it is the commuting problems. However I honestly can't remember a more depressing, miserable winter in my adult life. I grew up in upstate NY where we probably had some pretty harsh winters, but I just don't remember them as being so miserable and inconveniencing as this one. The upside is that once Spring arrives it will seem like heaven.

[trof]

12. Spring? You mean 'mud season'?

[elias49]

14. Give me mud!!

In NH, I'm running out of room for the new snow.
Horrid ice dams on the eaves of my house
I am so done with this winter.

[leftyladyfrommo]

21. You don't even have a chance to dig out.

Before the next one hits.

I just can't imagine how awful all of that is.

[smirkymonkey]

24. It really is beginning to feel like it will never end.

I know that's not true, but psychologically this weather does take a toll on people. You can just see it in people's faces. We need a break.

[DFW]

15. I guess I need to stop complaining about 5° here

Especially when that's Centigrade, so 41° F.

[Historic NY]

16. Yeah I remember the temperatures.....

wait if I remember then I survived. I had to work out in them night after night, subzero. The winter of my discontent.

[HockeyMom]

17. Flying to JFK from Florida tomorrow

I always go back to NY in February for the cold weather and snow. My nickname here in Florida is the Polar Bear, but -15 wind chills are a bit much even for me. Hope my SIL has stocked up on logs for the fireplace, AND some nice hot spiced wine!!!!! Sorry, to tease you. I know the WINDS with that low a temperature can be brutal.

BTW, it has not been in the 80s in South Florida in weeks. Tonight is supposed to be in low 40s, with inland areas down to freezing. High 50s and low 60s for highs tomorrow. Must be the entire Eastern Seaboard.

Stay safe and warm, Boston. That is WAY TOO MUCH snow.

[snooper2]

18. Sweetness...Lows are going to be in the 30's Sunday, Monday and Tuesday in Dallas

Winter isn't over!



not ready for 103 for 30 days straight just yet!

[leftyladyfrommo]

20. We get those kinds of temps all the time here in KC.

But we have no snow. We have hardly had any snow this year.

The cold is easy to handle (except for the homeless people, of course. And they mostly come into the shelters). But that kind of snow just has to be beyond awful.

[father founding]

22. The silence is deafening.

Haven't heard from any climate change deniers yet, guess they are too cold to get out of bed.

[candelista]

29. Climate change deniers use this as evidence against global warming.

Drudge does this all the time. You see, if global warming is happening, there shouldn't be cold weather, because everything would be getting warmer.

That's their angle. They ignore the fact that global warming is supposed to cause more extreme temperatures, not uniform warming of the climate.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

23. Snow possible next week in north and central Alabama

Snow possible next week in north and central Alabama



This weather hazards map from the Climate Prediction Center shows the possibility of rain or freezing rain or snow across parts of Alabama early next week. The details are still far from certain. (Climate Prediction Center)

[PasadenaTrudy]

25. Meanwhile, 87 here

Too hot! I'll be visiting friends in Brooklyn the last week of April. Hope it will still be chilly.

[SunSeeker]

27. It hit 92 today in L.A. In February. This is insane. nt

[PasadenaTrudy]

31. It is frightning

It felt like summer last night....

[SunSeeker]

33. Yes. Do you ever remember it being like this?

I don't. I've lived here since the 70s. It never even got cold this "winter." Just a few cool (low 60s) days.

[PasadenaTrudy]

34. Nope.

I did read that we had a similar heatwave in 1971, but I was in first grade so I don't remember it. I haven't worn a coat in years now. I don't even know why I have coats anymore, lol!

[jpak]

28. When I was a boy in Maine we regularly had cold snaps much worse than this -30 to -40 degrees F

These are wind-chill temps - not ambient air temps.

The Morans are gonna have to 'splain this away...

[onehandle]

30. GLOBAL WARMING IS OVER!

WE WON!!!

[blkmusclmachine]

32. Yay us!!!