Bracing for severe cold: tips for staying safe and warm
January 14, 2009
If you think it’s cold outside today, this is just the tip of the polar air mass headed south toward Tennessee.
Exceptionally cold air from the Arctic Circle is sweeping south, bringing with it “shockingly cold” temperatures, according to the National Weather Service hazardous weather warning issued today.
The NWS predicts that by Thursday, the daytime high temperature will remain in the twenties, with northwest winds of 10-20 mph: that translates to a wind chill temperature a high temperature hovering around zero. By Thursday night, the low will range from -0- to -5- degrees with a wind chill coming in at minus 10 degrees. [Read more]
