The Big Chill

Submitted by ub on

People living on the East Coast and Midwest better take the following precaution. If you can, stay indoors, or at least bundle up, if you must go out.

Extremely dangerous wind chills are headed our way this weekend, as 19 pf The United States pf America, from North Dakota to North Carolina under mow a wind chill warning.

A bitterly cold air-mass will settle over much of the central and eastern U.S over the next several days. Well below normal temperatures and cold wind chills will be common.

In addition, heavy lake effect snow will be possible especially downwind of Lakes Erie and Ontario, where up to one foot of additional snow is forecast by Sunday morning.

...Lake effect snowfall to continue downwind of the Great Lakes into early
Saturday morning...

...The coldest air mass of the season expected to impact Eastern U.S. this
weekend...

...Rain and snow expected to spread into the Northern Plains and the Upper
Midwest by Saturday...

http://www.weather.gov/

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 02/13/2016 - 10:06

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HYPOTHERMIA: A medical emergency when our body loses heat much faster than may be producing it, causing a dangerously low body temperature.