Mount Washington as cold as MARS where wind chills dropped to a record -110F

The blast of arctic air continues to create deadly weather across the Northeast as temperatures on Mount Washington made the peak as cold as Mars.

The recorded temperature of minus 110 Fahrenheit broke the previous record of 103 as NASA’s observatory reports that the weather on the red planet was a relatively pleasant minus 105 Fahrenheit this week.

Mount Washington Observatory meteorologist Francis Tarasiewicz said WMUR: “It’s really an amazing day, a stunning day and actually a bit of a scary time.” Temperatures are expected to climb to 48 in New England on Sunday.

Boston residents woke up to the coldest morning since 1957. The weather is also wreaking havoc at Logan Airport, where at least 60 delays and 10 cancellations have been reported, according to Flight Aware. Freezing of the fuel pumps was the reason for at least part of the outage.

Tarasiewicz also said: ‘At one point, on one of our west-facing doors, the hinge that keeps it closed broke, the force of the winds was so strong. So we had to do an emergency repair.

He went on to describe the cold weather as feeling like continual bee stings against the skin.

By comparison, air temperatures at Eureka, Canada’s northernmost Arctic weather station, hovered around -41.

Located in the White Mountains of northern New Hampshire at 6,288 feet, the Mount Washington Observatory was dealing with a combination of extreme cold and high winds from an intense gust of arctic air.

In the town of Wareham, Massachusetts, the local fire department performed the heroic rescue of a dog that had fallen through the ice on Bartlett Pond in the town.

The dog, Dakota, was about 150 feet from shore, the department said on Facebook. It is estimated that he was in the water for around 20 minutes before being rescued.

As Maine, known for its cold weather, but a popular pond hockey tournament was postponed, some ski resorts scaled back operations and organizers even ended Saturday’s events at the National Bobsled Championships.

In Portland, the wind chill was expected to drop to below 40 degrees Fahrenheit. It will be the coldest since at least 2016 and could be the coldest since 1981, making it possible for the wind chill to be the coldest in more than four decades.

Wind chill forecast for Saturday can cause frostbite on exposed skin in just 10 minutes.

Even if you are bundled up, extreme cold can be dangerous for someone who is outside for an extended period of time.

That is why people are encouraged to stay indoors. If people have to go out, they should dress like their lives depend on it.

Experts are warning people in the Northeast not to go skiing or snowmobiling in the frigid conditions.

The worst of the arctic blast will leave the region within 36 hours, temperatures in Maine are expected to peak at 37 degrees to melt the ice.

There were also flight disruptions further south with Newark and JFK also reporting more than 70 delays on Saturday morning, in addition to three cancellations.

Boston’s South Station, the city’s largest transit hub, opened its doors to homeless people seeking shelter.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu declared a state of emergency through Sunday and opened warming centers to help the city’s more than 650,000 residents cope with what the NWS warned could become a “unique” cold front. in a generation.”

Early Friday, arctic storm surge flowing into the United States from eastern Canada was centered over the US plains, weather service meteorologist Bob Oravec said. Kabetogama, Minnesota, near the Ontario border, was the coldest place in the United States at 1 pm EST, with a temperature of -39.

In New York City, the code blue alert issued by the mayor means that no one will be denied shelter in city facilities.

Temperatures in the Big Apple hit five degrees on Saturday morning, in the midst of a mild winter.

Meanwhile, a Pacific storm was expected to bring another round of heavy snow to California’s Sierra Nevada mountains on Saturday night.

Periods of moderate rain were forecast in the lower elevations of central and northern California and the Pacific Northwest through the weekend.

Despite the bitter cold, Nhon Ma, a Belgium native, was out Friday with his Zinneken food truck near Boston University selling Belgian waffles made from homemade batter and heating up with three or four waffle irons going at once.

“Those generate heat, but of course it’s cold, it’s going to be cold, but we’re here,” Ma told Reuters.

In frigid Biddeford, Maine, about 95 miles north of Boston, Katie Pinard, a coffee shop and bookstore owner, said business was good because customers were coming in from the cold, with some choosing to work at her store, Elements: Books Coffee. Beer, instead of traveling.

“Yeah, the Mainers are pretty hardy, but call me tomorrow and we’ll see if we’re busy or not,” he said, looking ahead to Saturday morning, when temperatures were expected to drop to -18 F (-28 C). ). “I think people are out and doing what they need to do before the real cold hits.”