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Brutal cold seizes northeast U.S., shattering record lows
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Coal Power
Jan 10, 2024, 2:40:03 PMJan 10
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February 4, 20237:35 PM PST Updated a year ago
Feb 4 (Reuters) - A dangerous combination of record-setting cold
temperatures and powerful winds buffeted the northeastern United States on
Saturday, creating life-threatening conditions and causing the death of an
infant in Massachusetts.
New Hampshire's Mount Washington overnight recorded a wind chill – a
measure of how the combined effect of air and wind feels to the skin – of
minus 108 degrees Fahrenheit (-78°Celsius), which appeared to be the
lowest ever in the United States. The air temperature at the peak reached
minus 47 degrees F (-44 C), with winds gusting near 100 miles per hour
(160 kilometers per hour), according to the Mount Washington Observatory.
The high winds brought a tree down onto a car in Southwick, Massachusetts,
the Hampden district attorney said in a statement, crushing the vehicle
and killing an infant passenger. The driver was transported to a hospital
with serious injuries.
In Boston, where officials closed down the public school system on Friday
due to the impending freeze, the low temperature hit minus 10 degrees F (-
23 C), shattering the day's record set more than a century ago, the NWS
said. In Providence, Rhode Island, the mercury dropped to minus 9 degrees
F (-23 C), well below the previous all-time low of minus 2 degrees F (-19
C), set in 1918.
The arctic blast flowing into the United States from eastern Canada
brought record lows to Albany, New York; Augusta, Maine; Rochester, New
York; and Worcester, Massachusetts, among other places, the NWS said.
The NWS office in Caribou, Maine, said it had gotten reports of
"frostquakes" - tremors that feel like earthquakes but are caused by the
soil cracking suddenly in the cold - as well as trees splitting open,
likely due to sap freezing inside the trunks.
Several cities took emergency measures to aid residents, including opening
warming centers and conducting outreach to ensure homeless people were
sheltered from the brutal cold.
In Boston, Pine Street Inn, the largest provider of homeless services in
New England, doubled the number of vans canvassing the city's streets on
Friday and Saturday, said Barbara Trevisan, a spokeswoman.
"They started going out early this week to warn people that the weather
was going to be very extreme," she said. "The goal last night was just to
keep people alive and safe."
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey ordered South Station, the city's main
rail terminal, to remain open overnight to serve as an emergency shelter.
About 50 to 60 homeless people stayed in the station overnight, Trevisan
estimated.
Many ski areas limited operations due to the temperatures. Jay Peak, a ski
mountain in northern Vermont near the Canadian border, closed down
entirely on Friday and Saturday, citing the danger to staff and skiers.
The frigid weather was expected to be short-lived, with temperatures
forecast to be significantly higher on Sunday. The high temperature in
Boston on Sunday will approach 47 degrees F (8.3 C), the NWS said.
Reporting by Joseph Ax; Editing by Sandra Maler
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/brutal-cold-seizes-northeast-us-
shattering-record-lows-2023-02-04/
Feb 4 (Reuters) - A dangerous combination of record-setting cold
temperatures and powerful winds buffeted the northeastern United States on
Saturday, creating life-threatening conditions and causing the death of an
infant in Massachusetts.
New Hampshire's Mount Washington overnight recorded a wind chill – a
measure of how the combined effect of air and wind feels to the skin – of
minus 108 degrees Fahrenheit (-78°Celsius), which appeared to be the
lowest ever in the United States. The air temperature at the peak reached
minus 47 degrees F (-44 C), with winds gusting near 100 miles per hour
(160 kilometers per hour), according to the Mount Washington Observatory.
The high winds brought a tree down onto a car in Southwick, Massachusetts,
the Hampden district attorney said in a statement, crushing the vehicle
and killing an infant passenger. The driver was transported to a hospital
with serious injuries.
In Boston, where officials closed down the public school system on Friday
due to the impending freeze, the low temperature hit minus 10 degrees F (-
23 C), shattering the day's record set more than a century ago, the NWS
said. In Providence, Rhode Island, the mercury dropped to minus 9 degrees
F (-23 C), well below the previous all-time low of minus 2 degrees F (-19
C), set in 1918.
The arctic blast flowing into the United States from eastern Canada
brought record lows to Albany, New York; Augusta, Maine; Rochester, New
York; and Worcester, Massachusetts, among other places, the NWS said.
The NWS office in Caribou, Maine, said it had gotten reports of
"frostquakes" - tremors that feel like earthquakes but are caused by the
soil cracking suddenly in the cold - as well as trees splitting open,
likely due to sap freezing inside the trunks.
Several cities took emergency measures to aid residents, including opening
warming centers and conducting outreach to ensure homeless people were
sheltered from the brutal cold.
In Boston, Pine Street Inn, the largest provider of homeless services in
New England, doubled the number of vans canvassing the city's streets on
Friday and Saturday, said Barbara Trevisan, a spokeswoman.
"They started going out early this week to warn people that the weather
was going to be very extreme," she said. "The goal last night was just to
keep people alive and safe."
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey ordered South Station, the city's main
rail terminal, to remain open overnight to serve as an emergency shelter.
About 50 to 60 homeless people stayed in the station overnight, Trevisan
estimated.
Many ski areas limited operations due to the temperatures. Jay Peak, a ski
mountain in northern Vermont near the Canadian border, closed down
entirely on Friday and Saturday, citing the danger to staff and skiers.
The frigid weather was expected to be short-lived, with temperatures
forecast to be significantly higher on Sunday. The high temperature in
Boston on Sunday will approach 47 degrees F (8.3 C), the NWS said.
Reporting by Joseph Ax; Editing by Sandra Maler
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/brutal-cold-seizes-northeast-us-
shattering-record-lows-2023-02-04/
Kenny McCormack
Jan 14, 2024, 2:08:28 AMJan 14
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In article <60a2eef88b8e71f1...@dizum.com>,
Coal Power <coal-...@solar.com> wrote:
>February 4, 2023 - 7:35 PM PST Updated a year ago
And you are posting this now (January 2024 - notice the "4" there) because???
--
If you don't have faith, it's because you are reading the Bible with an
honest, truthful, real-answer seeking heart.
- Rick C Hodgin -
Coal Power <coal-...@solar.com> wrote:
>February 4, 2023 - 7:35 PM PST Updated a year ago
And you are posting this now (January 2024 - notice the "4" there) because???
--
If you don't have faith, it's because you are reading the Bible with an
honest, truthful, real-answer seeking heart.
- Rick C Hodgin -
R Kym Horsell
Jan 14, 2024, 2:18:02 AMJan 14
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In alt.global-warming Kenny McCormack <gaz...@shell.xmission.com> wrote:
> In article <60a2eef88b8e71f1...@dizum.com>,
> Coal Power <coal-...@solar.com> wrote:
>>February 4, 2023 - 7:35 PM PST Updated a year ago
>
> And you are posting this now (January 2024 - notice the "4" there) because???
ChatGPT4 cain do arithmetic.
> In article <60a2eef88b8e71f1...@dizum.com>,
> Coal Power <coal-...@solar.com> wrote:
>>February 4, 2023 - 7:35 PM PST Updated a year ago
>
> And you are posting this now (January 2024 - notice the "4" there) because???
--
[Like Looking Inna Mirra:]
You are your own worst argument. Keep it up.
-- Tunderbar <tdco...@gmail.com>, 1 Jun 2012
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