it got down to minus 50, minus 60, and minus 70. watertown and surrounding countries, buffalo is under advisory. not much falling in buffalo now, and the bright colors of white turning gray. so it s lightening up there in watertown as well. paducah, kentucky, it is snowing right now. this is the amount of snow that has fallen. so with this amount of snow, this is multifaceted. it wasn t about the snow, they can handle the snow. they just had 36 inches last month, it s the wind. we want a warmup, but we don t want it to warmup so fast like we had that arctic freeze so fast. this is going to cause problems not just with water main breaks. but with so much snow and ice. and then you toss rain on top of this, on top of this is going to be over 50 for buffalo. but you have rain in the forecast for saturday, sunday, and monday, and your temperatures are near 50, in the
a surprise may be the slick roads, all the way down into lower tennessee, northern areas of mississippi, alabama. it s just a clipper, but behind is going to reinforce the cold air. it s going to be in place for a while. things are going to change somewhat. when we see the great lakes freeze over, that shuts off the lake effect snow machine for the year. but even up into ontario, this is widespread. this area of low pressure dropped to a category 2, the wind field was able to expand. so you had wind chill values that were minus 50, minus 60, minus 70. but now comes the dramatic warm-up. on the other side of this warm front, incredible warmth. l.a. had their second warmest christmas, 84 degrees. miami had their coldest at 50. it was warmer in london on christmas day than miami. so the temperatures in the teens are going to start to rebound. buffalo, lows in the 40s. we re already seeing pipes burst in many states, memphis having
united states. i ll show you that in a moment, but as we look through the next couple of days, we ll continue to see those temperatures falling and we will be watching for places like kansas city to be below zero as well. in the south, we are not leaving you out either. atlanta, just 12 degrees by saturday, charleston coming in at 3 degrees for the high on saturday as well. here s some of the coldest wind chills we expect. douglas, minus 60, denver minus 37. places like jacksonville are going to be in the teens, and houston just 2 degrees for your windchill. we have 50 states that will see windchills below 32 degrees, and we have 46 states that are going to be below zero. and we have snow, rain, blizzard conditions that will be super impactful for joe, people that are traveling, on the roadways, and we could see major power outages across the northeast and across the midwest here as we go through the coming days. and of course it s the holidays, people want to get together with familie
got to be cold air. reporter: it does that field like it right now. we expect temperatures today to reach as high as 50 degrees, but it s going to drop dramatically this evening when a major storm brings what the national weather service brings as life emphasize threatening cod to the front range. denver is expecting the the deep freeze expected to last through friday morning. the forecast, jim, don t necessarily reflect how cold it s going to feel. wind gusts and snow. in some parts of the plains, the witch will be as low as minus 60 degrees. frostbite could be caused within minutes. folks are being warned to stay indoors. the governor has activated 100 national guard members to help
time now for the weather and let s go to angie lassman. i don t think my adrenalin has come down yet from that game. but dangerously cold conditions will happen the next couple of days. you can see the windchill advisories and warnings are in effect for much of the high plains. feels like temperatures could be as low as minus 60 below. so dangerous may be an understatement. in the afternoon today, you can see 16 degrees below normal in sioux falls where a high will be just 10 degrees. bismarck coming in up a 1 degree later this afternoon. and that the warmest it will get there. and that is not the worst of it. we continue to see the temperatures falling the next couple of days. kansas city at a high of just 24. the northeast gets in on the action and so does the midwest as we get into the weekend. notice pittsburgh 41 on thursday, but saturday just 14. new york into the 50s for the end of the workweek, but then 26