we are experiencing record-breaking cold with arctic air spawning some of the lowest temperatures in decades. janice dean is in the fox extreme weather center tracking weather. hi, shannon. yes, all of the northeast airports are going to experience delays. especially philadelphia and new york right now. several hours worth of delays. freezing rain advisory still in and around the d.c. area. up towards boston and even maine where some of the precipitation is freezing on contact with the ground. and making travel very difficult and then we have winter weather advisories across the ohio river valley and we could see 6 to 12 inches of snow from the missouri valley all the way up to the great lakes and, of course, the cold is what everyone is talking about. these are current temperatures, below zero with the windchill, though, we could feel as far as far down as minus 50, minus 60 degrees. there is your windchill. minus 35 in rapid city. minus 28 in minneapolis. and you can see the wind
any relief, pedram? is this going to continue for days and days? up until at least wednesday. we do see above-average trend later next weekend. that s the good news long term. but right now you re talking about the bone-cold temperatures. as far as the ambient temperatures without the wind. anywhere from zero to minus 10 it would feel as cold as minus 28. 20 to 30 below. that s the forecast for areas across the upper midwest. north portion of the great lakes. you factor in a 10-mile-per-hour wind, it could be 53 below zero. schools across minneapolis, madison and milwaukee have been closed. monday was actually the first day to go back to school from the holiday break. and they don t want kids standing outside at the bus stop when it s some regions 50 below. and the arctic region, it s just settled in.
a hurry. as far as the cold goes, i ve got to show you this. bear alaska is at 14 degrees. the sun set there two weeks ago and won t rise until the end of january. they re at 14 degrees. fairbanks is at 31. typically it s minus 12 in fairbanks on average. much colder. look at the temperature in kansas city at 7, des moines 3, denver 3. the coldest air you re going to find. if you went and walked all the way through canada up to the north pole is located right over canada, down into the central plains and these windchills are ridiculous. just not fun. it s been this way for a week straight in fargo. minus 28 in windchill. look at chicago, not even a shot of going above freezing all week in chicago. that cold air, brian, here to stay. we didn t get the snow, we have some pond skating maybe, bill. got to be careful on that ice early in the season. we ll have the fire department check it, thank you very much. some other news to get to, including what the washington post is callin
accidents. the blue line on this map shows you where it s 32 degrees. that line has slowly been going to north. areas that are icy now including southern new england will improve later. the worst of the freezing rain shown in the pink here is now starting to move and push towards boston. boston is 34. you ll be fine. the suburbs will be colder. 28 there in albany. starting to improve things around washington, d.c. and you ll head up to the low 40s. drive home will be no problem. dangerously cold in the middle of the country. we just can t catch a break. this arctic air reinforces itself. minus 28 in fargo, north dakota. that s cold. even vegas has a wind chill of 20 this morning. we re cold all the way to the west coast. little bit of rain this afternoon that will be end in areas of new york and boston. disagreement how much snow will come tomorrow, mika but it does look like after a clear tonight areas tomorrow morning at this time from d.c. to philly and new york, we ll get another c
than i do. we don t want to remember. this storm is a nightmare for travel out there. look at the temperatures, montana, minus 47 windchill. i lived in maine for a couple of winters and i never felt that. that s really, really cold air. denver is at minus 28 and you still have the shovel in minnesota with windchills at minus 20. this is the critical line over the next couple of days because that will sink to the south. already ice being reported and that s the pink on the map. this is the area of greatest concern just north of little rock from tulsa to fort smith and tomorrow in areas of memphis. that s why we have ice storm warnings this area in purple here. this is where we have power outages and downed trees and where you see the power lines just sagging and the areas of purposel a eand i ve heard the y store shelves in this area of