The end is in sight – finally. The weather may not reach sunny Florida temperatures, but the arctic blast that has been gripping the Northeast since last month is expected to come to an end.
According to the National Weather Service, Sunday is expected to be the last day of the deep freeze with temperatures slowly rising in the upcoming week and winds easing somewhat.
Forecasters have predicted that Monday in New York City will be 31 degrees, which would solidify 14 days below freezing, the third longest stretch on record. Tuesday in the City is expected to be 39 degrees and Wednesday 38 degrees, much higher than Sunday’s temperatures.
Tourists in Chicago takes photos of the frozen river on January 6, 2018
Illinois will see temperatures in the high 30s on Monday and 40s by mid-week. Pictured is a view of ice floating over the frozen Chicago river on January 6, 2018
The National Weather Service said the deep freeze that has gripped the Northeast for the past week is expected to end on Sunday
Some cities will see temperatures in the 40s and 50s as the arctic blast in the Northeast finally comes to an end
Many New Yorkers awoke Sunday morning to a frigid six degrees. The Weather Service said temperatures are expected to drop a few more degrees throughout the day.
Sunday is forecasted to be the 13th straight day of below freezing conditions, tying for the third longest stretch of temperatures below 32 degrees in New York City. It will also be the longest stretch since January 1961.
| CITY | FRi | SAT | SUN |
|---|---|---|---|
| NYC | 14°/5° | 11°/0° | 18°/16° |
| PHILADELPHIA | 17°/6° | 16°/0° | 19°/15° |
| BOSTON | 14°/-1° | 8°/-5° | 15°/11° |
| DC | 19°/8° | 20°/7° | 27°/20° |
| PORTLAND | 12°/-6° | 5°/-10° | 13°/8° |
Other parts of the Northeast will be seeing slightly less freezing temperatures in the coming days. Raleigh, North Carolina, which will reach 30 degrees on Sunday, will be 47 on Monday, forecasters have said. Temperatures will reach the 50s by Wednesday.
Chicago, Illinois, which is forecasted to reach 29 on Sunday, will see temperatures in the high 30s on Monday and 40s by mid-week.
According to the Weather Service, Indianapolis has not had temperatures above 20 degrees for 12 consecutive days, a new record for the city. That’s expected to end Sunday when temperatures reach 35. By Wednesday, weather experts have predicted temperatures will reach the 50s.
Even though the weather conditions are expected to lighten up, the National Weather Service is still urging people to take proper precaution when outdoors.
The National Weather Service said that temperatures in certain parts of the Northeast will reach the 40s and 50 in the coming days. Pictured in this photo is Gage, who is homeless, outside of a coffee shop on the streets of Boston on January 4, 2018
Many New Yorkers awoke Sunday morning to a frigid six degrees. The Weather Service said temperatures are expected to drop a few more degrees throughout the day
Ice floats along the Hudson River as the skyline of New York City and One world Trade Center are seen during freeze temperatures on January 06, 2018
People walk their pets as the skyline of New York City and One world Trade Center are seen during freeze temperatures
Sunday is still expected to be frigid but temperatures will rise Monday and throughout the rest of the week
‘Record breaking cold temperatures and bitterly cold wind chills will continue through the weekend over the eastern third of the nation. Exposure to cold temperatures can lead to hypothermia and frost bite in little time. Be safe,’ a Facebook post read.
Winter Storm Grayson which engulfed the East Coast has brought a lot more than freezing temperatures.
Hospitals in Rhode Island have treated dozens of patients for storm-related injuries following a powerful blizzard that dropped more than 14 inches of snow in some parts.
In Providence and Newport, at least 40 people were treated for various weather-related conditions, such as heart attacks, snowblower or shoveling injuries, frostbite and more, according to The Providence Journal.
‘This is chilly, chilly stuff,’ Brian Hurley, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland, said on Thursday.
The storm, known as the ‘bomb cyclone’, began three days ago in the Gulf of Mexico and first struck the Florida Panhandle. By Thursday it was wreaking havoc as blizzard warnings and states of emergency went into effect along the Eastern Seaboard. Wind gusts hit more than 70 mph in places and some areas saw as much as 18 inches of snow.
The frosty conditions come in the wake of meteorological phenomenon known as the ‘bomb cyclone,’ a low-pressure winter storm system that intensifies very rapidly with increasingly powerful winds
The National Weather Service issued a wind chill over the weekend warning for communities in Western and Central Massachusetts (Pictured: Winthrop, Massachusetts)
An automobile covered in snow with windshield wipers exposed in East Boston neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 06 January 2018
Pleasure boat (Temptress) frozen in Boston harbor, at Orient Heights Yacht club East Boston neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 06 January 2018
The extreme weather conditions has been tough on everyone, including firefighters. In this Jan. 5, 2018, file photo, a firefighter from the Longmeadow Fire Department battles a house fire in Longmeadow, Massachusetts
Illinois is firecasted to reach 29 degrees on Sunday. Pictured is a view of the frozen Chicago river on January 6, 2018
The storm caused school and business closings, airline and rail service cancellations or reductions and thousands of utilities outages, many of them restored quickly. Some ferry services even had to be shut down along the Canadian coast.
In the South, the winter weather forced portable toilets to be put in place outside Mississippi’s Capitol after pipes burst. Residents of southeast Georgia were treated to a rare half foot of snow.
In New England, the powerful winds brought coastal flooding that reached historic levels in some communities with icy water overflowing piers, streets and restaurants and stranding some people who had to be rescued.
The dangerous weather conditions have also been blamed for at least seven deaths.
In North and South Carolina, four people were killed after their cars ran off the snow-covered roads. Another person died near Philadelphia when a car could not stop at the bottom of a hill covered in snow. The vehicle slammed into a commuter train killing the passenger, authorities said.
A girl in Virginia was also killed by a pickup truck while sledding and a 75-year-old man in Hampton was hit by a snow plow while clearing business parking lots.
A view on the city of Boston skyline in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, on the heels of a major winter storm on the East coast
Meteorologists studying weather patterns in the northeast part of the US say that wind chills in one part of New Hampshire were forecast to hit negative 100 degrees
Workers dig snow Friday morning in Boston, Massachusetts after a massive winter storm dumped more than a foot of snow
A woman passes an ice-covered fountain in New York’s Bryant Park on Friday