A severe cold weekend is waiting for more than 100 million people in the northeastern United States, as Arctic cold air flows directly from eastern Canada," senior meteorologist Alex Sosnowski of AccuWeather stated in his latest winter weather forecast.
According to AccuWeather's forecast, temperatures in most of the northeastern United States will drop to minus degrees Celsius or just around 0 degrees Celsius.
Weather.com warns that dozens of record low temperatures of the day may be recorded on February 7th and February 8th.
Weather forecaster Ben Noll of the Washington Post commented: "This weekend may record the coldest air mass of the entire winter in the Northeast and Central Atlantic regions.
The Center for Weather Forecasting under the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said that a strong arctic cold air mass will lead to a sharp drop in temperatures and dangerous cold sensations due to winds in the Northeast and Central Atlantic regions on February 7-8.
The feeling of deep cold due to the wind can be recorded most strongly in the northeastern inland and New England. Daytime temperatures in many places will hardly exceed minus one digit to around 0 degrees Celsius.
Strong winds, possibly gusts over 80 km/h, not only exacerbate widespread severe cold but also potentially cause localized tree felling and power outages. NOAA warns that this risk is higher in the southern and central Appalachians, the central Atlantic region and the northeastern inland of the United States.
In addition, strong snowfalls in a short period of time may occur when cold air mass arrives on July 6-7. 2.
Meteorologist Ryan Maue of Weather Trader said that a branch of the polar vortex in the lower atmosphere (called the convective polar vortex) is the cause of this record cold spell.
Weather. com forecasts that warmer air, or at least less cold, will return to the east of the US, but may not become clear until the end of next week. The NOAA Weather Forecast Center believes that the warming trend is expected to begin from mid-next week.
