Not so fun time! Winter storm Frankie forces cancellation of New Year’s Eve events across the Northeast as it brings snow and bitterly cold conditions with the NYPD issuing a hypothermia warning ahead of the ball drop
Freezing cold weather will usher in for New Year’s Eve celebrations across the Northeast and Midwest
The mercury in New York City’s Times Square is expected to drop to about 10 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 12 Celsius)
The wind chill is estimated at nearly 0 F (minus 18C) during the final hours of 2017
Forecasters warned of hypothermia and frostbite from arctic air settling in over the US and spreading east
Some New Year’s Eve events have been cancelled due to the dangerous low tempertatures
DAILYMAIL.COM
31 December 2017
Bitterly cold weather will usher in for New Year’s Eve celebrations across the Northeast and Midwest United States, bringing record low temperatures and making traveling difficult.
The mercury in New York City’s Times Square is expected to drop to about 10 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 12 Celsius),’ according to the National Weather Service.
The wind chill is estimated at nearly 0 F (minus 18C) during the final hours of 2017, and will test the willpower of hundreds of thousands of New Year’s Eve revelers.
In the heartland, next week could bring low temperatures last recorded 130 years ago to parts of Nebraska, said David Eastlack, a meteorologist with the weather service.
That includes a record low for the date of minus 22F (minus 30C) for Tuesday.
‘The bitter cold is going to be dangerous,’ Eastlack said in a phone interview, warning residents of eastern Nebraska and western Iowa to avoid venturing outside or taking a car trip.
He said that the wind chills will be near minus 35F (minus 37C), a level when frostbite could set in within 10 minutes.
The weather service predicted lows would hit minus 20F to minus 30F (minus 7C to -34C) from Montana into the Dakotas and Minnesota, well below average.
Temperatures could drop to around 0 F (minus 18C) as far south as the northern border of Oklahoma on New Year’s Day.
They will stoop into the minus 30s near the Canadian border on Sunday and Monday, the service said.
The arctic air from Canada will also bring subfreezing temperatures to U.S. Gulf Coast cities such as Biloxi, Mississippi.
Icy roads will make travel difficult over much of the United States, from the south-central states of Texas and Oklahoma and eastward over Arkansas.
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