Arctic Hounds Unleashed: Long Duration Late January/Early February Cold Snap

[Sey-Mour Snow]

[Sey-Mour Snow]

[WxWatcher007]

42 minutes ago, Sey-Mour Snow said:

-5.0° up at WXW2 while SLK is -8

Been holding at 9° here in EH

[kdxken]

 

[qg_omega]

6 hours ago, jbenedet said:

To our west? 
 

Yes. 
 

West of CT river is probably coldest in a few years. That’s relevant for here.
 

But NY NJ and PA are challenging records.

Bust 

[dendrite]

gwdlt

[SJonesWX]

Was 26 at 1pm. Front rolled through and dropped to 14 by 4pm. down to 12 now, and wind is blowing the new snow around. 

[tavwtby]

32 minutes ago, SJonesWX said:

Was 26 at 1pm. Front rolled through and dropped to 14 by 4pm. down to 12 now, and wind is blowing the new snow around. 

high today was 22.7° at midnight, and 17.1° at 12, it's now 0, with 23 sustained and gusts 45+, only got an inch new but seems like more with the wind blowing it over everything old, nice little refresher hopefully more by the end of next weekend.

[klw]

Down to 1f.  2. " new overnight and during the day.

[Modfan2]

Down to 10F in E CT, wondering how low we go here

[Damage In Tolland]

1.8 man cold. This is what we laugh at the fakiators for 

[Roger Smith]

I would predict airports will drop to -5 to -10 F range, rural areas of eastern New England -12 to -16 and western New England -18 to -23 F. Saranac Lake NY could be close to -40. Setting records will depend on whether any given location had records in 1934 or not.  An all-time record low of -52 (from memory, not entirely sure) was set at Saranac Lake or Lake Placid on Feb 9, 1934. But that was under a 1050 mb arctic high. I just looked it up and BOS has a record on 9th of -12 set in 1934. The record high of 66 was set in 1933! Providence has a record low of -9F (1934 also) but Worcester is -10 from 1963. Hartford is -13 set 1967. Both Hartford and Worcester have older record highs than 1934 so either they didn't drop as much, or were temporarily shut down. Even Central Park NYC dropped to -15, and downtown Toronto had -21 F. 

(note added later, these 1934 lows quoted above were actually midnight lows on the way down to colder readings the next day, I was mistakenly assuming Sunday was the 9th but it's really the 8th ... that probably explains why ORH and BDL did not have 1934 record lows for the 8th but I'll check when they show up on climate reports what all four locations set as records on the 9th). 

[dendrite]

Are people losing their mind?

[dendrite]

6pm temps

[ineedsnow]

9 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

1.8 man cold. This is what we laugh at the fakiators for 

Alaska laughs at us  

EXTREME COLD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY EVENING THROUGH
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...

* WHAT...Dangerously cold wind chills as low as 75 below possible.

* WHERE...Arctic Coast, Arctic Plains, and Brooks Range Passes.

* WHEN...From Sunday evening through Wednesday afternoon.

* IMPACTS...The dangerously cold wind chills as low as 75 below zero
  could cause frostbite on exposed skin in as little as 5 minutes.

[Modfan2]

2 minutes ago, dendrite said:

6pm temps

Yeah, BOX only has me down to 0F, I am sure I will go lower but hopefully not much below

[Roger Smith]

65F in western ND and eastern MT today. 

[kdxken]

1 minute ago, Roger Smith said:

65F in western ND and eastern MT today. 

It's been an amazing winter out there.

[qg_omega]

17 minutes ago, Roger Smith said:

I would predict airports will drop to -5 to -10 F range, rural areas of eastern New England -12 to -16 and western New England -18 to -23 F. Saranac Lake NY could be close to -40. Setting records will depend on whether any given location had records in 1934 or not.  An all-time record low of -52 (from memory, not entirely sure) was set at Saranac Lake or Lake Placid on Feb 9, 1934. But that was under a 1050 mb arctic high. I just looked it up and BOS has a record on 9th of -12 set in 1934. The record high of 66 was set in 1933! Providence has a record low of -9F (1934 also) but Worcester is -10 from 1963. Hartford is -13 set 1967. Both Hartford and Worcester have older record highs than 1934 so either they didn't drop as much, or were temporarily shut down. Even Central Park NYC dropped to -15, and downtown Toronto had -21 F. 

No stop 850s do not as support any of this

[WxWatcher007]

24 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Are people losing their mind?

It’s cold, but this is a wind chill event more than anything imo

[Roger Smith]

Just realized that the 1934 records were for Monday (Feb 9th), tomorrow is Feb 8th so the 1934 records I mentioned were set (like NYC -7F) at midnight on the way down to readings below the records quoted. For some reason I had it in my mind that tomorrow was the ninth. Anyway, I can see where it may not drop quite as low near the coast because of continued stronger winds there but I bet it gets way below zero over this fresh snow pack if skies stay clear most of the night. 

[kdxken]

I hope we get a -40° Celsius and a -40° Fahrenheit. One of the same. 

[WxWatcher007]

1 hour ago, ineedsnow said:

Alaska laughs at us  

EXTREME COLD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY EVENING THROUGH
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...

* WHAT...Dangerously cold wind chills as low as 75 below possible.

* WHERE...Arctic Coast, Arctic Plains, and Brooks Range Passes.

* WHEN...From Sunday evening through Wednesday afternoon.

* IMPACTS...The dangerously cold wind chills as low as 75 below zero
  could cause frostbite on exposed skin in as little as 5 minutes.

Dude they're 20-30 degrees further north lol

[Sey-Mour Snow]

11 hours ago, jbenedet said:

I’m seeing that Binghamton may not crack zero all day tomorrow either.

Air temperature….

I don’t know what that means historically but that’s wild to me. 

Some places in the Litchfield hills today were below zero all afternoon after the front went through that’s extremely impressive .