Arctic air mass shaking New York leaves record cold in several states

On Saturday morning, the arctic air mass battering New York kept millions of people inside your home, thanks to icy winds that brought the temperature to -5 degrees Fahrenheit, with a wind chill of 15 to 25 degrees below zero, in some parts of the state.

Albany, New York, tied a daily record set in 1978 for minus 13 degrees, the coldest day in the city, where wind chill (how cold the temperature feels with gusts of wind) dropped below minus 34 degrees Fahrenheit, something that hadn’t happened since 2016.

In Hartford, Connecticut, the thermometer dropped to -6 degrees Fahrenheit and in Concord, New Hampshire at -15 degrees, although the wind made it feel much colder everywhere.

The National Weather Service said the frigid conditions also demolished records set more than a century ago in Boston and Providence, where minimum temperatures hit minus 10 and minus 9 degrees Fahrenheit early Saturday.

The temperature in Boston plummeted to a chilling minus 10 degrees Fahrenheit early Saturday, smashing a daily temperature record dating back to 1886, according to the National Weather Service, which reported Saturday’s record cold was the first minus temperature in two digits since 1957.

However, as the morning said goodbye and midday approached, the temperatures began to rise a bit, thanks to the fact that the wind began to blow in another direction.

Jesús López, a meteorologist for Los Guardianes del Tiempo, indicated that at 2 in the afternoon the thermometer will reach 23 degrees Fahrenheit on Saturday and predicted that, by Sunday, temperatures will rise even more.

Despite the wind and cold, there were relatively few power outages in the region. New York was hardest hit with 11,685 customers left in the dark, according to PowerOutage.us.