Wind chill warnings covered more than 16 million people in the U.S. Thursday night, according to the National Weather Service, with the largest area in a swath from Syracuse and Binghamton in New York and across New England and Maine.
ByWarming centers were being opened across Maine on Thursday as the state braced for bitterly cold temperatures that could see wind chills of minus 60 degrees, officials said.
“Frostbite and hypothermia are real risks when temperatures are this extreme,” Nirav D. Shah, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said inin far northeastern Maine, where there was also a blizzard warning, said that winds of 50 mph and wind chills as low as minus 60 degrees were possible.
"Although unofficial, from the records we have been able to gather, the coldest wind chill in Portland since 1948 was -43 degrees in 1971, so we are nearing wind chills values that most have not seen in their lifetime," the weather service said in aWind chill warnings will be in place from 4 a.m. Friday to 7 p.m. Saturday in Caribou. In the state capital of Augusta, the warning is from 10 a.m. Friday to 1 p.m. Saturday.
New York City's Friday night low was forecast at 9 degrees, and the city's emergency management department warned of wind chills that could be minus 5 degrees.
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