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Benedict Arnold

Polar Vortex brings subzero temps colder than Antarctica, How cold is it in your area?

6F at the moment. Wind chills will be as low as 25 below zero. Winds gusting as high as 35 mph. Snow showers with significant accumulation thru Friday:(

Posted - January 30, 2019
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  • 44583
    Last I checked -7F. Wind chill -30.
      January 30, 2019 11:14 AM MST
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  • 13277
    Temperatures are not cold or warm. They're high or low.
      January 30, 2019 11:15 AM MST
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  • 44583
    Good call.
      January 30, 2019 11:22 AM MST
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  • Ouch!  I hope you and yours keep warm:)
      January 30, 2019 11:16 AM MST
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  • i've heard a lot that today was supposed to be the coldest day of the year but it is actually pretty normal outside for this time of year 

      January 30, 2019 11:16 AM MST
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  • Glad your area escaped the worst of it:)  OH and HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELON:)
      January 30, 2019 11:19 AM MST
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  • 5391
    It is a brisk 65 degrees here. Almost had to go dig out some long pants. 
      January 30, 2019 12:32 PM MST
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  • 7789
    It's only 27 degrees here.
      January 30, 2019 12:34 PM MST
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  • 19937
    NYC is 32 degrees now, feels like 21 with winds between 20-21 mph.
      January 30, 2019 12:38 PM MST
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  • 7939
    68 here. I'm not sure how much of this chill I can handle. 
      January 30, 2019 12:48 PM MST
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  • 44583
    Wait...you're from Wisconsin. Surely you remember those cold winter nights.
      January 30, 2019 2:36 PM MST
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  • 7939
    Sure, but I would die there now. 
      January 30, 2019 6:17 PM MST
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  • 44583
    I would come and keep you warm. And get spicy chicken sammiches.
      January 30, 2019 6:19 PM MST
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  • 44583
    My furnace has been running for 36 hours and my house can't hold the heat. It's 68F.
      January 30, 2019 6:17 PM MST
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  • 46117
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      January 30, 2019 1:25 PM MST
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  • 44583
      January 30, 2019 2:36 PM MST
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  • 5451
    It was -35˚F when I got up this morning and it's -17˚F right now, which is the warmest it's been today.
      January 30, 2019 1:50 PM MST
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  • 44583
    Move South to Nebraska.
      January 30, 2019 2:38 PM MST
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  • We're having a moderate winter so far, mid 40's daytime and mid 20's at night. Should be in low 60's by end of week.(Columbia County Ga)
      January 30, 2019 2:44 PM MST
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  • 3719

    I think the effect is enhanced in the middle of a huge continent.

    The British Isles have had snow in the North and East, and we are being warned of temperatures possibly dropping to around -10ºC (about 17ºF) -  but it is Winter, and such Winter weather is common here.

    The news programme this morning on BBC Radio Four told us something of the chilly weather you're presently having in  North America and Canada, by playing several clips from your weather reports. They all mentioned wind-chill as well the real temperature. Our own forecasts do warn of this, but don't make a big thing of it, and do not usually enumerate it; perhaps because it's actually a highly subjective, individual effect.

      January 30, 2019 4:09 PM MST
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  • 44583
    Chilly. British understatement?
      January 30, 2019 6:14 PM MST
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  • 10980
    Windchill is no more individual or subjective than actual air temperature. Windchill affects how quickly you can suffer frostbite. It's important information for us to have where I live.
      January 31, 2019 7:22 AM MST
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  • 3719
    Oh, please don't think I was trying to play it down. I know it is very serious.

    What I meant was that its effect is subjective because it will depend on how well or poorly insulated you are, how much skin is exposed, the strength of the wind, dryness of the air and your clothing, your body's state of hydration; so giving it an equivalent temperature can only be a guide.  

    A meteorologist interviewed on BBC Radio Four this afternoon explained the Polar Vortex. Normally it as it says, over the Pole, but for some reason it has wandered Southwards, over the American continent. Temperatures at the North Pole at the moment are not ever so far below freezing!

    Asked if it is affecting the British Isles and NW Europe, she said no, and the snow and frost with temperatures down to around -10ºC we are seeing just now, are just normal British Winter weather. Nevertheless we are warned of the wind-chill effect, but it's more often given as something like, "... down to around -8º, but with the wind-chill it will feel much colder."

    We are also well aware that the cold can kill; with elderly, frail people alone at home, being at highest risk.

    By chance the forecast is on the radio next to me as I type: snow in the South-West England and Wales, frost in clear areas so a lot of ice about. 
      January 31, 2019 11:02 AM MST
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  • 10611
    It's a nippy 60 F here.  However, there a chance of snow here on Sunday (finally!)
      January 30, 2019 4:29 PM MST
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