Phenomenon on the ocean. Karen you re looking at sea smoke in swampscott. That s what happens when arctic air blows over warmer ocean water. Good sunday morning, i m karen anderson. Doug i m doug meehan. It s february 14. We are breaking records this morning. It is really just a nice morning to hang out inside. We are breaking really record low temperature readings this morning. Nine below zero is the new record we set today. In boston, 16 below zero. We should be around 25 degrees this time of year. We are starting to warm up. We are at one degree now. Three degrees in nantucket but still below normal and below zero in most locations. In the next 12 hours in and around boston, we may come up around 11 degrees before falling back down to the single digits. Temperature out there today. It is the wind out of the north and west. It feels like 23 below zero in boston right now and like 30 below zero in worship sure. Worchester. It will stay cold until lunchtime and then we are still below
Candidates hit the debate stage. The candidates throwing nasty jabs at each other in a crucial, conservative state. Youre watching wcvb, bostons news leader. Good morning this is newscenter 5s eyeopener. Doug bitter and dangerous cold weather gripping the region right now. The frigid temperatures creating a pretty cool phenomenon on the ocean. Karen youre looking at sea smoke on boston harbor. Thats what happens when the arctic air blows over the warmer ocean water. Happy valentines day. Im karen anderson. Doug im doug meehan. You saw boston harbor. Its dangerous cold out there, danielle. Danielle doug, karen, that is correct. Weve set new records in boston and worcester this morning. You can see why the air temperature, nine below zero in boston. The old record was three below zero. 15 below zero in worcester. We havent seen this cold of temperature readings since 1957 right now were all below zero across the area. Nantucket is one below zero. You factor in the strong winds out of the
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Karen youre looking at sea smoke on the boston harbor. Good morning. Img Karen Anderson in with doug meehan and happy valentines day to you. Doug we are breaking records this morning, karen. Are you ready for it . Danielle has been up all night long watching that thermometer. Danielle drop, drop, drop, drop, drop. Its still dropping at this hour. Were down to nine below zero in boston so far this morning and 15 below zero in worcester. That shatters all records from today and its the coldest its been since 1957 at this areas. Just so you know it is really brutally cold outside. Nine below in boston. 11 below in lawrence. 11 below in springfield. And then you factor in those winds and theres gusts over 35 miles an hour still this morning. It makes it feel more like 34 below zero in boston and 44 below zero in worcester. This is dangerous cold. Thats why we had the wind chill lunchtime today. Heres whats going to happen as we go through the next 12 hours. Notice these wind chills stay ab
S check it out. We are down to 22 in boston. One of the reasons is elevation. We have a call in New Hampshire, it is down to eight degrees. Also, with elevation. This is a cold air mass. Watertown, new york. Up. When is gusting to 30 miles per hour. Windchill is below zero. Single digits in boston. The air temperature starting out will not be as windy as it is now. It will be quite cold. Single digit full show up and we will struggle to get to the upper teens tomorrow afternoon but the cold i am talking about is still to come. The really harsh cold is on its way beginning saturday afternoon with strong wind. Been issued saturday afternoon. We talk more about this, some snow for some of us coming up tomorrow night in a little. Jc now to 5 on the opioid crisis. Lawmakers in washington calling for hundreds of millions of dollars to combat the heroin crisis. That includes Democratic Senators from both massachusetts, New Hampshire and new york. But as newscenter 5 s janet wu tells us it wil