Niagara Falls freezes over as polar vortex drops temperatures –
It is so cold across North America that the normally rushing falls of the Niagara river have partially frozen. The river is still flowing underneath the ice, which isn’t expected to melt any time soon as temperatures continue to stay below freezing.
- Niagara Falls has frozen over due to below freezing temperatures
- It will likely stay frozen too as temperatures are expected to get even colder on Thursday
- Almost the entire East Coast, including some parts of Florida, will experience below freezing temperatures on Thursday night
Extreme winter weather has been causing problems for millions across the East Coast, but it has also made for some beautiful sights.
Among those beautiful sights is Niagara Falls, which has now frozen over due to temperatures which dropped to 16F on Wednesday.
And it looks like the popular tourist destination may stay frozen, as temperatures are expected to drop even lower come Thursday.
ANOTHER arctic blast strikes the East Coast
- A series of ferocious winter storms have dumped a staggering 96 inches of snow on city of Boston, Massachusetts
- Comes as another arctic blast is set to hit central and eastern US on Wednesday, bringing sub-zero temperatures
- New blast follows Winter Storm Neptune and Winter Storm Octavia; the latter of which struck the South on Tuesday
Friday arrived with an icy slap as Arctic air surged into the eastern United States. The cold snap caused long-standing records to tumble across the Midwest and Eastern Seaboard.
A new, all-time record low for any month was set in Lynchburg, Va., on Friday morning, when the city dropped to minus 11 degrees. The previous all-time low was minus 10, set in 1985 and 1996.
Flint, Mich., has tied its all-time record low for any month when the temperature dropped to a brutal minus 25 degrees on Friday morning. The last time it was so cold in Flint was on Jan. 18, 1976.
Cleveland broke its all-time record low for the month of February when the thermometer bottomed out at 17 degrees below zero on Friday morning. The new record surpassed the previous by one degree, set more than a century ago on Feb. 10, 1899.
Many record lows for the date have been set in major cities in the eastern U.S., including New York, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Atlanta and Miami. Florida.
In Washington, a temperature of 5 degrees Friday morning was enough tosmash a 120-year-old record for this date. That temperature, as measured at Reagan National Airport, broke the mark of 8 degrees that entered the record books on this date in 1896. D.C.’s record low of 5 degrees also surpassed last winter’s coldest low of 6 degrees on Jan. 7, 2014.
A wind chill advisory remained in effect across most of the area until noon.
[D.C. forecast: Snow and ice possible on Saturday]
Today’s highs in Washington are expected to climb into the upper teens, maybe around 20 degrees in the city, but will peak only around 15 degrees in the suburbs. All three Washington-area airports will be in range to set record cool high temperatures on Friday; the old records are 18 degrees at both Baltimore-Washington and Reagan National set in 1896, and 26 at Dulles set in 1972.
NOAA’s Weather Prediction Center writes that the dangerously cold outbreak is surging south thanks in part to an appendage of the polar vortex. “There are indications that this could be some of the coldest weather since the mid-1990s for parts of the Southeast U.S., Mid-Atlantic, and central Appalachians,” it wrote. “An eddy of the polar vortex will add to the potency of the surface cold front, thus creating a deep layer of bitterly cold air.”
But the week’s record-breaking cold is not just Arctic, but Siberian air that has been trudging across the North Pole and into North America — leading many to refer to the outbreak as the “Siberian Express.”
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