who knew global warming would be so cold?
The temperature in
Boston plummeted to a bone-chilling minus 10 degrees Fahrenheit early Saturday morning, smashing a daily temperature record dating back to 1886, according to the National Weather Service, which reported the record cold on Saturday was the first double-digit negative temperature
since 1957.
The peak of New Hampshire’s
Mt. Washington—which has garnered a reputation for its intense cold and wind—set a wind chill record at an astounding minus 109 degrees Fahrenheit, with the temperature dipping as low as minus 45 degrees Saturday morning, five degrees shy of an
all-time state record. Forecasters with the National Weather Service had
warned on Friday the historic low temperatures could cause frostbite in “as little as 10 minutes” as “unusually cold” wind chill set in, to as low as minus 65 degrees in
northern Maine and into the minus 40s in Portland, Maine—the city’s
coldest wind chill values in more than 20 years