outages with the winds kicking through. it is starting to improve in new york. the front is beginning to move through at 35 at jfk. last hour you gusted to 50. again this is moving quickly. that is the saving grace. by 8:00 or 9:00 a.m., a lot of the heavy rain will be gone. it will get a lot colder as the day moves on. worst of it, the next three hours, connecticut, rhode island, massachusetts, southern new hampshire and then coastal areas of maine. then it will be improving. then the cold air moves in. look at the temperature today. only 28 for a high in pittsburgh. wind chills falling into the teens. it is bitterly cold today back in the midwest. we re at high of 1 today in minneapolis. the cold air through kansas city and st. louis. we had record highs days ago. the wind chills are dangerous this morning. not a misprint. this is rola, north dakota, at minus 49 wind chills in north dakota. schools are canceled in many areas up there, richard. it s too cold and too dangerous to be ou
partly because of la nina. they got on them this weekend and the waves were monstrous there. startling video. there was one surfer who was injured. you look at the size of the waves and think, only one? my goodness. that is probably something that s going to happen more often than that. cold air across parts of the northeast today. that is the highlight as far as what we re looking at for temperatures. minus 12 in albany. you factor in the wind and the windchills in some cases i found as low as minus 49 in parts of maine. right now feel like minus 22 in boston. feels like minus 24 in albany. a balmy zero is the windchill in the big apple. there are going to be spots downtown on wall street where the winds will be humming higher. feel colder than that. wintry precip heading across the lower great lakes. shouldn t amount to a whole lot. should be a slick go across indiana and illinois. and then some rain heading across parts of the gulf of mexico. this is going to be developing over the
conditions, but he has been charged with careless driving. seven minutes past the hour. rob marciano keeping an eye on the issues happening south of the northeast once again being targeted. cold air in place. the northeast really in it, especially upstate new york and northern parts of new england. some of the windchills are frightening. six degrees is what it currently is. temperature measured in the shade, without windchill included, in new york city. you go to syracuse and new york, minus 12. minus 11 inial b albany. minus 12 in portland. the winds, it feels like minus four in new york city. feels like minus 23 in boston. i have found some windchills, minus 31 in portland, by the way. minus 49 in parts of central maine. this is dangerous stuff. certainly you want to keep your skin covered up as you head out the door. here s the national map. storm is developing across parts of the south that will bring heavy rains through parts of texas and louisiana and through georgia and alab