Hey East Coasters … It’s about to get cold. Very cold.
“In the Northeast, New England, the mid-Atlantic and parts of the central Appalachians and eastern Great Lakes region, this will likely be the coldest air of the season so far from late Friday to Sunday,” AccuWeather senior meteorologist Bob Larson said in an online forecast . And in parts of the Southeast, the cold air coming in late this week and this weekend could also rival season lows so far.
The cold winds will make it feel like it is well below freezing in most places, Weather.com warned.
The National Weather Service said that the “arctic airmass should bring daytime highs down to as much as 15 to 20degrees below normal for especially parts of the Northeast and close to that in the Mid-Atlantic.”
Some relatively good news: Forecasters say the worst of the intense cold should be over by the middle of next week.
‘Painful to be outdoors’
The cold will be shocking: “When combined with gusty winds in the wake of a strengthening Alberta clipper storm on Thursday, it will feel painful to be outdoors for a significant length of time if not properly dressed from the central Appalachians to the mid-Atlantic coast and New England from Friday to Saturday night,” AccuWeather senior meteorologist Tom Kines said.