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Dangerous, coldest aerial of the play expected crossed Northeast this weekend
Amid a wintertime of relentless Arctic conditions, the astir almighty polar punch of the play is expected this week crossed the Northeast, with unsafe upwind chill temperatures approaching 25 degrees beneath zero successful immoderate places. Powerful winds of the northwest volition usher successful aerial associated with the polar vortex. National Weather Service (NWS) offices are keeping a adjacent oculus connected the upwind setup and could contented Extreme Cold Warnings — seldom seen successful the Northeast.
NEW YORK – Amid a winter of relentless Arctic conditions, the astir powerful polar punch of the season is expected this week crossed the Northeast, with unsafe wind chill temperatures approaching 25 degrees beneath zero successful immoderate places.
Powerful winds of the northwest volition usher successful aerial associated with the polar vortex to the densely populated metro areas of Boston, New York and Philadelphia.
National Weather Service (NWS) offices are keeping a adjacent oculus connected the upwind setup and could contented Extreme Cold Warnings — seldom seen successful the Northeast.
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Neck Bay frozen implicit successful Bayside, Queens, connected Feb. 2, 2026. (Judi Fitzgerald)
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Scituate, MA - February 1: A idiosyncratic shovels plowed snowfall retired of their driveway connected February 1, 2026. (Photo by Finn Gomez/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) ( )
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A idiosyncratic crosses the thoroughfare successful Copley Square during a snowstorm successful Boston, Massachusetts, connected January 25, 2026. (Joseph Prezioso / AFP via Getty Images)
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FILE - Boston, MA - January 17: A commuter is bundled for the acold extracurricular South Station. ((Photo by Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images))
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FILE - PHILADELPHIA, PA - JANUARY 27: A wide presumption of the exterior of Citizens Bank Park with snowfall during stadium sprout astatine Citizens Bank Park connected Tuesday, January 27, 2026 successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ((Photo by Denis Kennedy/MLB Photos via Getty Images))
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FILE - The ice-covered Ohio River successful Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US, connected Monday, Jan. 26, 2026. (Photographer: Justin Merriman/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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U.S. Coast Guard cutters are engaged trying to support New York's iced-over waterways moving, including freeing an NYPD Harbor Unit vas that was beset by crystal floes Tuesday. (U.S. Coast Guard Northeast/Facebook)
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People locomotion successful the snowfall successful Central Park successful New York City connected December 27, 2025. New York City received astir 4 inches (10 centimeters) of snowfall overnight. Airlines canceled 1,500 US flights during the highest vacation question play Friday, with terrible wintertime tempest warnings and dense snowfall forecast crossed parts of the Midwest and northeast. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP via Getty Images) (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP via Getty Images)
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.
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.
(FOX Weather)
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.
NEXT ROUND OF SNOW BEGINS ACROSS WINTER-WEARY EAST, LATE-WEEK STORM COULD CAUSE TRAVEL TROUBLE
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.
(FOX Weather)
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.
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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.
(FOX Weather)
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.
( (Photo by: John Lazenby/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) / Getty Images)
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.
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