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Temperatures in New York City are expected to drop 20 degrees below normal, threatening residents with frozen water pipes, flooding and other infrastructure damage, the National Weather Service has warned, as 12 States ranging from Montana to Maine are facing wind chill warnings and advisories.
Main facts
- The NWS forecast actual temperatures of minus 5 degrees Fahrenheit and wind chill of minus 3 degrees at New York, a rare event for the city.
- Wind chill is expected to reach minus 25 degrees in Burlington, Vermont, and minus 8 degrees in Boston, where schools were closed on Tuesday.
- In parts of the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes region, wind chills are expected to drop to minus 40 degrees, prompting the NWS to issue wind chill warnings and advisories for parts of 12 states, including Montana, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont.
The context
A cold front entering the eastern Atlantic Ocean and arctic air moving into the northeastern United States contributed to the extreme cold. Climate change has resulted in increasingly extreme and variable weather patterns. While 2022 is expected to be one of the hottest on record, last year ended with winter storms that put 24 states on weather alert, triggered avalanches and floods and knocked out networks. electrical. Extreme winter weather in the United States is caused in part by the warming Arctic, according to a study published by Science last year, which revealed that climate change could stretch the “polar vortex”, a weather system that normally traps cold air in the northernmost regions of the globe.
Article translated from Forbes US – Author: Zachary Snowdon Smith
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