The majority of the Eastern US has just witnessed it’s coldest opening week of January in recorded history. A mammoth record to see fall.
Even for the period between Dec 25 and Jan 7, it’s been coldest on record for the Northeast. Amazing.
It’s not only the Northeast but the Great Lakes region too.
Thank or blame the sustained nature of this outbreak. Records have been broken, tied or approached for No of consecutive days below 32, 25 and 20 degrees including the DC to Boston region while many Upper Midwest and Great Lakes cities shivered in their coldest New Years eve/day on record followed by day after day in the teens and below 0 at night.
Night time lows in the official sites of DC, Philly, NYC and Boston failed to reach significant benchmarks such as 0 in Philly and NYC but daytime highs were significant with coldest day since 1994.
Although Feb. 14, 2015 had a colder mean temp (high/low of 15/-1), today's high of 13 in #CentralPark Park was the coldest since Jan. 19, 1994 when the high was 10. #weather #Brrrr pic.twitter.com/2QOxB9UH4i
— Rob Frydlewicz (@nycWeatherGuy) January 6, 2018
Our streak w/highs of 32 degrees or colder reached 13 days today, tying the streak from the winter of 2001 as second longest (since 1900). A big difference is that this streak has been much colder than the earlier one. #weather #Brrrr pic.twitter.com/LLHcM0tBRM
— Rob Frydlewicz (@nycWeatherGuy) January 8, 2018
#Manhattan and the icy #HudsonRiver from 30k feet this morning. #NYC #deepfreeze #bittercold #StormHour pic.twitter.com/Bvh0usgZX7
— eweather (@Eweather13) January 7, 2018
Sustained cold made Long Island look more like the arctic.
A Picture of the Great South Bay on #LongIsland pic.twitter.com/NB911qIj6a
— Glenn Bradley (@3cb9882c032b43e) January 8, 2018
Fun Facts: The 3 straight days of sub 20 highs is the most since 2/9-2/14/1979 (6). It's also the longest such streak in January since 1/1-1/3/1918.
— PhillyWx.com (@phillywx) January 8, 2018
As with much of the East, past 2 weeks in Eastern TN have been coldest on record. To put it in perspective it has felt more like Milwaukee WI or Portland ME, now that's cold !! #tnwx #winter pic.twitter.com/dMZjTXgMxz
— Tom Niziol (@TomNiziol) January 8, 2018
Testament to intensity and duration of this cold, upper Delaware Bay has a lot of ice as does the inlet waters of coastal New Jersey.
Check out the difference between before and after the deep freeze and blizzard. Brigantine, the little island north of Atlantic City NJ, is literally frozen over. Can't distinguish the difference between the island, the marshes and the bays. pic.twitter.com/du3k3x9PBk
— StormForce_1 (@StormForce_1) January 7, 2018
Frozen St George Thorofare in Brigantine, NJ #6abcAction @SNJToday @ThePressofAC @shorenewstoday @ACPressACnews pic.twitter.com/hum1ox4TYk
— conniepyattphotos (@ConniePyatt) January 5, 2018
Memorable scenes of the cold blast in DC.
A sight you don't see often….people walking on the ice on the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool. pic.twitter.com/z5w9dHJnZG
— Jeff in DC (@Jeff_Ghannam) January 8, 2018
People play hockey on the frozen Reflecting Pool at the National Mall, in Washington, D.C. pic.twitter.com/jGBKvFWygX
— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 8, 2018
Even coastal waters separating the Outer Banks of NC from the mainland has icing.
Check out all the Sound Side Ice near the Outer Banks and in Albemarle Sound. Great view of the snowpack as well. This was yesterdau via the MODIS Satelite Imagery. #ncwx #obx #obxwx pic.twitter.com/IMS26ImqxC
— Brad Panovich (@wxbrad) January 7, 2018
Now for the WARM UP!
FEATURED IMAGE CREDIT: Brigantine Beach NJ @BrigChamber
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