People shield themselves from cold winds as the region sees record-breaking low temperatures on February 03, 2023 in New York City.
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A powerful Arctic blast will bring freezing conditions through northern Maine as well as “dangerously cold wind chill temperatures” into the Northeast by Saturday evening, forecasters have warned.
“Temperatures in the coastal mid-Atlantic will be 10 to 30 degrees below average across parts of the Northeast,” the National Weather Service said in a bulletin early Saturday.
It said wind chill warnings and advisories are in place across New York state and New England.
The weather service said high winds could cause power outages and property damage along the northern Rocky Mountain front and on the High Plains.
This comes after the temperature across the region reached dangerous levels on Friday. At Mount Washington Observatory in New Hampshire, where the wind chill was minus 101 degrees Fahrenheit was recorded.
Elsewhere, schools in Boston and Worcester, Massachusetts, New England’s two largest cities, were closed on Friday because of concerns about the risk of hypothermia and frostbite for children walking to school or waiting for buses.
With the Weather Service predicting a wind chill of minus 30 to 40 degrees Fahrenheit for northern Massachusetts on Saturday, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu declared a state of emergency through Sunday to help the city’s more than 650,000 residents cope. To do this, open the warming center.
In Southwick, Massachusetts, just outside Springfield, a storm was blamed for the death of an infant who was killed when the wind toppled a tree that had fallen and collided with a vehicle in which Had a child The 23-year-old mother of the infant was alive. Deadly wound The sex and age of the child were not immediately available.
In New York, a “Code Blue” alert indicating sub-freezing temperatures and the opening of emergency shelters was activated.
The New York office of the National Weather Service said temperatures of minus 10 to 15 degrees Celsius and a wind chill are forecast for the city and suburbs on Saturday morning.
According to the website poweroutage.us, more than 11,000 properties in New York state were without power early Saturday and more than 5,000 properties in Maine were without power.
While the Northeast was winding down, Texas and parts of the South were beginning to warm up after a deadly winter snowstorm that brought days of freezing rain, sleet and snow, causing massive power outages and Dangerous icy roads happened.
Although “snow will fall in parts of California Saturday night,” the weather service said, another round of heavy snow will hit the Sierra Nevada mountains Saturday night into Sunday.
