through the midwest, polar vortex is going to blast the region with life-threatening windchills as low as negative 40-degrees. carley: that kind of cold could mean frostbite on exposed skin. janice dean is tracking, this is no joke. janice: this would be dangerous not just frostbite but dangerous windchills that could actually kill people if you re outside, across the upper midwest, we will be talking about temperatures minus 30, minus 40, air temperatures that s without the windchill across the northern planes and upper midwest, that s where the worst is going to be, temperatures that they haven t seen in decades, that s how cold it s going to be, the good news it will be short lived, look at some of the forecast windchills, minus 39, minus 20 in chicago. wednesday, thursday, friday and then it s going to come across the great lakes and parts of
we have a lot of snow still to deal with and some freezing rain that s really problematic across the road. so it s saturday, if you can stay off the roads at all, especially across areas of the mid atlantic into the northeast, do so you ll be saving yourself a lot of trouble. we have all kinds of winter weather advisories in effect across the central part of the country around the great lakes in toward part areas the northeast. some spots five to eight inches of snow across northern areas of new england. but the cold air is what we ve been dealing with for such a long time. it s that pink color, feels like minus 39 in billings, minus 24 in fargo. you get the idea. i want to take us through the next couple days. cold air still in place here across the plains. go to sunday, still here around the great lakes. and then by monday it starts to retreat back up into canada where we d like to see it going to tuesday, wednesday, you get the idea. the worst of it that pink, that very cold air goe
likely to be cold enough to cause significant icing. do you agree with that and do you believe that icing is possible at 32,000 feet? absolutely positively. it s been reported and it s completely wrong that you can t get icing up there because it s in the tropics. there s a thing called a standard lapse rate, one degree per thousand feet. i looked it up before i came on air. air temperature at 34,000 feet in that area of the world right now is minus 39 degrees. so at 34,000 feet minus 39 yeah that s about one degree per thousand feet. yes. the tops of those thunderstorms are all ice crystals and you got these massive down floss and updrafts and that kind of shear within these things and the hail that s generated you know you got a jet engine. think of the flight that landed in the hudsons.
forever and we re just i following a cocaine bust. don t even know if we re in the in a letter to house speaker middle of winter yet. john boehner, radel wrote he it is really cold and getting cannot effectively serve his colder. i m getting tired of this district, a change from his earlier promise that he would spend the next year trying to weather. i need to move to florida or vegas. regain the trust of the voters. in chicago, you could see 4 a special election is being planned for replace him. inches of skin between the we re hearing this morning forehead and the upper lip, from a virginia state senator that s it. that s probably too much, attacked and nearly killed by too. many in ohio have the same his own son in his own home. feeling and same sensibility. creigh deeds is detailing what look at this, the wind blowing happened to him when his son, gus, went after him with a knife in cleveland this morning with last november, stabbing his snow and temperatures falling way,
i am and if we could go to weather nine and i ll show you where the cold air is, i apologize. we had to switch sources but this will show you where we have the arctic air plunging southward. you can see the maps right now. from canada south forward across the ohio valley, down to the deep south where it s 10 in kansas city, fine us two in chicago, minus 13 but you mentioned the wind chill. right now in international falls, feels like minus 37 but that will continue to drop. minus 45 degrees. it s certainly going to feel like that in international falls as we head into tuesday. minus 39 is what it feels like in green bay. the dangerous cold is as far south as the deep south. wind chill warnings in effect with wind chills up to minus 50. very dangerous. that s why these schools are