The National Weather Service says a new record for wind chill was set on Saturday and it puts to shame the 50-below zero cold we experienced in December.
Arctic air descended on the Northeast and brought a wind chill reading of 108-degrees below zero to the summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire.
The Mount Washington Observatory, at the peak of the Northeast’s highest mountain, combined a temperature of 47-below, tying its record low set in 1934, with a wind gust of 127-mph to produce the 108-below wind chill.
The Mount Washington Observatory is famous for its extreme weather conditions, including a wind speed in 1934 of 231-mph, the highest ever recorded in the United States and the 2nd-highest in the world.