Bitterly cold air and dangerous wind chills have spread across Kansas City as a historic winter storm exited the region early Monday, according to the National Weather Service.
The bone-chilling temperatures are expected to linger most of the week, with wind chills dropping below zero each morning.
Snow from the massive winter storm that brought blizzard conditions ended early Monday, leaving behind dry conditions. Sunday’s snowfall was the fourth-largest single-day snowfall on record in Kansas City.
At Kansas City International Airport , temperatures dropped into the single digits overnight, falling to 8 degrees shortly before 6 a.m. The wind chill dipped to 4 degrees below zero.
The weather service issued a cold weather advisory, which is in effect until 11 a.m. Monday, for Kansas City and parts of Kansas and Missouri. The advisory warns that wind chills as low as 15 degrees below zero are expected.
“The cold wind chills as low as 15 below zero could result in hypothermia if precautions are not taken,” the weather service advised. “Frostbite and hypothermia will occur if unprotected skin is exposed to these temperatures.”