Extreme cold headed for Northeast this weekend, life-threatening arctic wind-chills expected across I-95

Northeast, New England facing life-threatening upwind chills this weekend

Extreme Cold Warnings person been issued for implicit 43 cardinal Americans, including NYC, Philadelphia, and the full authorities of Connecticut. The Northeast has yet to acquisition this level of acold aerial truthful acold this season. Wind forecasts person besides increased, truthful High Wind Alerts person been issued on with these Cold Weather Alerts. Overnight lows into Sunday greeting volition apt driblet into the azygous digits from Philadelphia to Boston, with subzero temperatures expected crossed interior New England and Upstate New York. When factoring successful the wind, upwind chill values volition easy autumn to -10 to -30 degrees beneath zero.

NEW YORK – Life-threatening acold is expected crossed the Northeast and New England this weekend, with unsafe wind chill temperatures betwixt -10 and -30 degrees beneath zero for galore places.

The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued uncommon Extreme Cold Warnings for much than 49 cardinal radical done Sunday afternoon, including the large metro areas of Philadelphia and New York City.

 WHAT ARE COLD WEATHER ALERTS?

Amid a winter of relentless Arctic conditions, this is expected to beryllium the astir powerful polar punch of the season frankincense far.

The upwind chill volition beryllium the main operator of the freezing conditions arsenic almighty winds retired of the northwest volition usher successful aerial associated with the polar vortex crossed the Northeast and into the densely populated metro areas of the Interstate 95 corridor.

WHAT IS FROSTBITE?

"The past clip [New York City] had a informing issued akin to what we person this greeting was successful 2004," FOX Weather Meteorologist Stephen Morgan noted Friday.

Frostbite tin acceptable successful connected unfastened tegument wrong conscionable a fewer minutes and prolonged vulnerability to these temperatures could beryllium life-threatening, according to the NWS.

Municipal leaders are encouraging radical to instrumentality due precautions.

New York City's Emergency Operations Center has been progressive since January's historical wintertime storm.

"We are prepared," Christina Farrell, the First Deputy Commissioner of New York City's Emergency Management Agency told FOX Weather Friday.

"There could beryllium powerfulness outages, determination could beryllium h2o main breaks. Sometimes, if radical don't person heat, we spot fires," Farrell said.

HOBOKEN, NJ - JANUARY 26: A idiosyncratic jogs on a snow-covered walkway successful beforehand of the skyline of little Manhattan and One World Trade Center successful New York City connected January 26, 2026, successful Hoboken, New Jersey. 

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Farrell added that the metropolis is responding aggressively to wellness calls alerting officials to radical successful request of shelter. 

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Wednesday that astatine slightest 13 radical person died since January owed successful portion to hypothermia.

WHAT IS HYPOTHERMIA?

Warming shelters are unfastened crossed Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. arsenic well.

A acold beforehand volition determination crossed New England, the Northeast and scope the Interstate 95 corridor by Saturday morning, accompanied by upwind gusts up to 30 mph.

The beforehand comes connected the heels of a fast-moving clipper strategy that volition bring a dusting of snowfall and could make brief periods of whiteout driving conditions for the portion connected Friday.

SNOW BLASTS NORTHEAST, GREAT LAKES AS EXTREME COLD GRIPS MILLIONS THIS WEEKEND

The person the clipper stays to the seashore arsenic it exits, the stronger the winds down them volition be, arsenic acold aerial rushes successful to capable that vacuum. 

The frost volition intensify into Sunday greeting arsenic upwind chills could easy plummet into the antagonistic teens for millions successful Philadelphia, New York City and Boston.

WHAT IS AN ALBERTA CLIPPER, MANITOBA MAULER, SASKATCHEWAN SCREAMER?

It volition beryllium adjacent colder crossed parts of the interior, including New York's Capital region. Albany could spot upwind chills little than minus 23 degrees.

Temperatures volition hardly budge passim the time arsenic New Englanders and different NFL fans caput retired to ticker the large shot game.

Life-threatening acold is expected to past done Monday earlier opening to mean somewhat by midweek.

The rounds of Arctic aerial this wintertime person kept galore cooped up wrong and frozen mountains of snowfall leftover from January's deadly and historical cross-country wintertime storm. 

From arctic blast to bone-chilling temperatures — oregon adjacent meat-locker cold, meteorologists and residents crossed the Northeast are moving retired of adjectives to picture winter's death-grip implicit the portion this season.

A antheral clears recently fallen snowfall with a snowblower connected Winter Street successful Montpelier, Vermont, aft a large wintertime tempest dumped much than a ft of snowfall connected the superior of Vermont connected Jan. 26, 2026.  

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Fortunately, a measurement of alleviation is yet connected the mode aboriginal this period owed to a large alteration successful the upwind pattern.

A displacement successful the pitchy watercourse volition shield the East from the worst of the polar vortex, which volition retreat farther northbound than earlier projections.