Mount Washington, New Hampshire

A record-setting wind chill of 108 degrees below zero was seen on the summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire, the National Weather Service said.

Temperatures plunged into the negative teens in dozens of other cities and towns, with wind chill making it feel even colder. In Albany, New York the temperature was 13 degrees below zero, which tied the previous record. Boston's record of 10 degrees below zero smashed the last record of two degrees below zero, which was set in 1886. In New York's Adirondack Mountains, Old Forge recorded a temperature early Saturday of 36 degrees below zero. Record lows were set on Saturday morning in the following cities, according to the National Weather Service: The area is famous for extreme weather conditions.

The Arctic air that descended on the Northeast on Saturday brought dangerously cold sub-zero temperatures and wind chills to the region, ...

Temperatures plunged into the negative teens in dozens of other cities and towns. Those are the people we are most worried about.” Temperatures got so low that authorities in Massachusetts took the unusual step of keeping the South Station transit hub open overnight so the homeless had a safe place to sleep. The driver was taken to the hospital with serious injuries, but the infant died, authorities said. “On these cold nights, they are not thinking at 100% of their capacity. The morning temperature was about -10 degrees Fahrenheit.

The wind chill was minus-108 degrees at the summit of the New Hampshire mountain on Friday, according to the National Weather Service.

As weather experts pointed out, Mount Washington found itself in the stratosphere Friday night as the result of a lobe of the polar vortex that barreled south. [tweeted](https://twitter.com/Climatologist49/status/1621747441627451393) that the last time the wind chill could have hit at least minus-108 in Mount Washington would have been 138 years ago. (The Mount Washington Observatory calculated the wind chill at minus-109 degrees.) The good news? Parts of Maine are experiencing their most extreme wind chills [in at least a generation](https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/02/02/wind-chill-warning-new-england-northeast-subzero/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2&itid=lk_inline_manual_21), and New England cities including Boston, Providence and Bridgeport, Conn., set record daily temperature lows, according to the Weather Service. This layer is typically 4-12 miles up, but tonight it will be less than a mile!— Terry Eliasen (@TerryWBZ) An 89 mph wind with a temp of -48F or colder produces a wind chill below -108F.— Brian Brettschneider (@Climatologist49) Using old climate forms showing the temperature and 24-hour average wind speed, Brettschneider estimated that Mount Washington would have seen a minus-108 wind chill on Jan. Washington wind chill dropped to -108F. On that day, their 24-hour average wind speed was 89 mph. The observatory had forecast sustained winds of more than 100 mph on Friday night, with gusts around 128 mph. Looking at some old climate forms, on Jan 22, 1885, their temperature dropped to -50F.