By Barbara Goldberg
January 8, 2015
A man walks past the ice-covered Josephine Shaw Lowell Memorial Fountain, in frigid temperatures in Bryant …
By Barbara Goldberg
Snow expected to accumulate to 3 feet (1 meter) deep was falling in upstate New York near Watertown, and snow already blanketing South Dakota was whipped by winds into a "ground blizzard" that made driving treacherous, said meteorologist Dan Petersen of the National Weather Service.
The coldest place in the country on Thursday was Estcourt Station, the northernmost point in Maine, with temperatures of minus 38 degrees F (minus 39 C), he said.
Records were broken from Montpelier, Vermont, at minus 20 F
(minus 29 C), to Jackson, Kentucky, with minus 1 F (minus 18 C), he
said. Snow flurries were reported as far south as Jacksonville, Florida.
"It's the face, it's like being hit with a sheet of ice,"
Bart Adlam, 40, president of U.S. yogurt supplier siggi's, said as he
rode a bike through Times Square on his way to work at 8 a.m. in New
York. The wind chill there made 9 degrees F (minus 12 C) feel like 2
below (minus 18 C), according to Weather.com.
Cold bitter
enough to freeze fuel lines on school buses forced schools to close from
Portland, Maine, to Chicago. Train rails cracked by the cold caused
delays for commuters in Washington, D.C. Weather also hung up U.S. air
travel with 1,937 delays and 515 cancellations by mid-afternoon,
according to FlightAware.com.
In Pittsburgh, two baby African penguins were moved
indoors at the National Aviary, where the endangered animals that are
native to South Africa will remain until temperatures rise.
Frostbite could set in with just 15 minutes' exposure to
the frigid air, the weather service said, advising people to keep pets
indoors.
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