A deep freeze is expected to envelop the Columbia area of South Carolina Sunday, and temperatures are forecast to drop into the teens, according to the National Weather Service.
Bitterly cold weather will cause temperatures to fall throughout Sunday and go below the freezing point at night with the arrival of arctic air, National Weather Service meteorologists said in a morning briefing. The breezy conditions — with winds between 10 and 20 mph, and gusts as powerful as 30 mph — will combine with the low temperatures to create dangerously cold conditions, according to the briefing.
A cold weather advisory was issued for all the Midlands, and will go into effect at 8 p.m., meteorologists said. The advisory is scheduled to run through 10 a.m. Monday, according to the National Weather Service.
Temperatures will drop into the teens by Monday morning with wind chills in the single digits in some areas, according to the briefing. In Columbia, the temperature is predicted to reach a low of 18 degrees, the forecast shows. With the wind chill, temperatures in Columbia will feel closer to 12 degrees, according to the briefing…