MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) – Brutally cold conditions are expected to envelop the East Coast most of this weekend, prompting wind chill warnings from Virginia to Vermont.
Temperatures will reach close to zero from Philadelphia to Boston through Saturday night, with wind chills making it feel like minus 10 degrees to minus 20 degrees. Even more temperate locations won’t escape the cold, with the mercury dipping into the single digits in Baltimore and Washington, D.C., over the weekend – about 20 degrees below normal for this time of year.
The blast of cold air, which comes just days after a storm dumped as much as 18 inches (46 centimeters) of snow in some places, could bring the feeling of real jaw-clenching temperatures to people living further north.
A man crosses E. Washington St. in downtown Syracuse, N.Y. Friday, Jan. 5, 2018. Frigid temperatures, some that felt as cold as minus 30 degrees, moved across the East Coast on Friday as the region dug out from a massive winter storm that brought more than a foot of snow, hurricane-force winds and coastal flooding a day earlier. (Michael Greenlar/The Syracuse Newspapers via AP)
The National Weather Service said Friday that temperatures in the Berkshire mountains in western Massachusetts could seem like a frosty minus 35 degrees, parts of New Hampshire and Maine could experience minus 45, and Vermont’s mountain regions could feel like minus 50 degrees.
“It’s definitely cold and the type of bone-chilling cold that happens every few years,” said Dan Hofmann, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Baltimore. He added that the last time such extreme cold occurred was in February 2015.
The weather service issued wind chill warnings for various days this weekend for parts of Vermont, New York, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Maine and New Hampshire.
These locations, however, will have nothing on the White Mountains in New Hampshire. The Mount Washington Observatory, on its website , predicted the mountain’s highest summits could see wind chills of minus 100 degrees into Saturday.
Fast forward to early next week, though, and more seasonable weather is expected to return with temperatures in the high 30s and near 40s.
Brielle Ashley is bundled up a she waits as her children and “grown man-child” sled down Sandee Crescent in Virginia Beach, Va., Friday, Jan 5, 2018. For some, Friday was a second snow day off from reality – a chance to warm up with hot cocoa or build snowmen outside with the kids. But for others, it was back to work – which meant shoveling driveways and navigating unplowed side streets. (.Vicki Cronis-Nohe/The Virginian-Pilot via AP)
Cylie Echols pushes Matt Caracciolo down a small hill as they enjoy another day of sledding, Friday, Jan. 5, 2018 in Leland, N.C. (Ken Blevins/The Star-News via AP)
Victor Macros, fromleft, Fallah Willie, Alan Motes and Rodjane Bailey, all volunteers with Operation Blessing, work to shovel the driveway of resident, Jordan Gold, center, in Virginia Beach, Va., Friday, Jan. 5, 2018. Operation Blessing International has put out a call for volunteers to help residents in Norfolk, Virginia Beach and Chesapeake who will need assistance removing snow from their homes. (Kristen Zeis/The Virginian-Pilot via AP)
Pat Metheny, 35, of Botetourt County, climbs his way up Crabtree Falls in Nelson County as his friend Greg Martin, 45, of Roanoke County, stands below on Friday afternoon, Jan. 5, 2017 in Nelson County, Va.. Metheny, started ice climbing in the early 2000’s when a group of friends introduced him to the sport. The last time Metheny ice climbed was two years ago at Crabtree and Cascade Falls. (Erica Yoon/The Roanoke Times via AP)
Bill Abee of Morganton, N.C., photographs a frozen over High Shoals Falls at South Mountains State Park on Friday, Jan. 5, 2018 in Connelly Springs, N.C. The 60 foot waterfall is frozen over as a result of below freezing temperatures. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)
Chris Frontario, from Long Island, N.Y., under the Missouri Ave. entryway along the Boardwalk, Friday, Jan. 5, 2018, in Atlantic City, N.J. (Edward Lea/The Press of Atlantic City via AP)
Longport Police Officer Gabe Guerrieri helps Sarah Mammucari with shoveling her driveway, Friday, Jan. 5, 2018, in Longport, N.J. (Edward Lea/The Press of Atlantic City via AP)
In this aerial photo, the Colonial Place neighborhood in Norfolk, Va., is blanketed in snow Friday, Jan. 5, 2018 (Stephen M. Katz/The Virginian-Pilot via AP)
Sledders used a variety of devices to whiz down Sandee Crescent in Virginia Beach, Va., Friday, Jan 5, 2018. For some, Friday was a second snow day off from reality – a chance to warm up with hot cocoa or build snowmen outside with the kids. But for others, it was back to work – which meant shoveling driveways and navigating unplowed side streets. (.Vicki Cronis-Nohe/The Virginian-Pilot via AP)
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