Meteorologist belen de leon is outside. Shell be watching the sunshine. Well have a nice weekend. Im watching everything out here for you guys. Lets watch these winds. The gusts right now in and around the foothills. Up to about 20 and 30 Miles Per Hour. Folks, this is an improvement of what we had in the overnight hours. Gusts up to 70 Miles Per Hour. To the south, gusty in Colorado Springs. The air force base and into northeast colorado. Speeds right now in the 30s. Now, those winds out on the plains will be decreasing as the morning rolls on, but they will still be gusty in the foothills and the the high country. Here is a look at radar and satellite. We had snow overnight, but those travel advisories have expired and the snow is all but over in the mountains. Its going to be sunny in the city. We started off with temperatures in the 30s and 40s. Now our afternoon highs are going to be in the 60s. This is going to be cooler than where we were yesterday. Record. This is a pretty nice
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The vehicle reading it to our vehicle. 27 degrees now. The winds calm at 6. 5 miles per hour. The wind chills just about 20 degrees. That means tomorrow night at this time it will feel about 40 degrees colder. Now, because of the extreme cold, the city has issued a code blue and no one will be denied shelter and mayor de blasio is asking new yorkers to take this weather very seriously. With temperatures about to bottom out in the single even subzero digits, its hats on across the city. Some are big. What do you call yourself when dressed like this . Bubble head. Reporter some bold but some are barely there. No hat, yeah. Im just roughing it. Reporter when i say to you 20 below zero, what comes to mind . I should be in florida. Reporter Kristin Williams wont be there. She will be here and willing to venture out even when wind chills make it feel a bone chilling 20 below zero. Will you wear a hat . I will find a hat. Reporter when i say to you mind, i cant say it on tv. I say oh alaska n
Dangerously cold temperatures it will be bringing. Look at those negative numbers right now. Buffalo, market, thats all spilling down here into southern new england. The Single Digits farther west, 15 plymouth, 20 in boston. But were only really going to go down from these numbers. I dont expect to warm up today. Lets look at those wind chills, already seeing wind chills in negative territory 10 00 this morning. By 3 00, negative territory all the way over to boston. It just getsz worse overnight, frostbite in as little as 10 minutes with these kind of wind chills, much more coming up. Blair continuing coverage for you of freezing temperatures. The Warming Centers opening for anyone who needs them. Heather we know in lowell, thats where there is one open for helpful Stephanie Coueignoux is there this morning and its been open since yesterday afternoon and people arictaing advantage of it. Im actually in the lobby. Because there are people still actually sleeping in the rooms behind me.
Elevations but it will add up already half inch reported in the last couplplof hours up and burnsville we make a little more than that in the northern mountains ttts why we have those Winter Weather advisories which are up for these counties along the tennessee border snow now to the west and north of marshall coming down over hot springs could get another one top to inches overnight tonight again the snow is really going to taper off the northern mountains kind of data way were not looking at much more than just a few flurries in asheville overnight tonight dont expect any accumulation. Turn our attention to the bitter cold coming in wind chills advisory kicking in at midnight tonight new saturday not for lower elevations but for i elevations because the windchill values will be 5 to 15 degrees below zero that means frostbite in say 15 exposeseto that so people pets and pipes the 3ps we need to think about protect the pipes are tech the pets and of course watch up for the elderly to.