Arctic blast breaks US wind-chill record

By Agence France-Presse

Feb 06, 2023 12:05 am

NEW YORK: An Arctic blast that brought 'frostquakes' to parts of the United States saw the country record its lowest ever wind-chill temperature, meteorologists said Saturday (Sunday in Manila).

Atop Mount Washington in the northeastern state of New Hampshire, the wind-chill factor reached minus 78 degrees Celsius (minus 108 degrees Fahrenheit) overnight, the National Weather Service (NWS) said.

FREEZING COLD The temperature of minus 1 F (minus 17 C) is displayed at a school in Lincoln, New Hampshire on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023 (February 5 in Manila). The northeastern US and Canada are experiencing an Arctic blast that could see some areas record their lowest ever wind chill temperatures. The US National Weather Service (NWS) warned that parts of Maine might see wind chills of minus 60 F (minus 51 C). ‘This is an epic, generational arctic outbreak,’ the NWS office in Caribou, near Maine’s border with Canada, wrote in an advisory. AFP PHOTO

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