A powerful arctic blast swept into the U.S. Northeast on Friday, threatening to push temperatures to record lows in many spots, including New Hampshire's Mount Washington, where the wind chill could drop to -110 degrees Fahrenheit (-79 Celsius), forecasters said.
The bitter cold forecast forced a rare closing of a floating museum that presents a daily re-enactment of the 1773 Boston Tea Party, when a band of colonists disguised as Native Americans tossed crates of tea taxed by the king into the harbor.Early on Friday, the core of the cold air mass, driven from Arctic Canada into the United States by high-altitude air currents, was centered over the U.S. Plains, said weather service forecaster Bob Oravec.
In Mount Washington State Park, atop the Northeast's highest peak, temperatures were expected to fall to a record low of -50 F later Friday, officials for the New Hampshire park service said. By comparison, air temperatures in Eureka, Canada's northernmost Arctic weather station, were hovering at -41 F on Friday morning.
Boston was about 22 above zero F on Friday morning, with temperatures expected to plummet throughout the day and hit -3 F by midnight. In Worcester, Massachusetts, 40 miles to the west, temperatures were expected to drop to -14 F before starting to moderate on Saturday.
While the Northeast was hunkering down, Texas and parts of the South were starting to warm up in the aftermath of a deadly winter ice storm that brought days of freezing rain, sleet and ice, causing massive power outages and dangerously icy roads.
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