blizzard warns continue across iowa, south dakota, not because we have that much more snow falling but we have all of the fresh snow on the ground, 45 miles per hour gusts. ground blizzard conditions are possible because the visibility could still drop. a winter storm watch for parts of arkansas into tennessee because this is arctic air comes in, it could come with a punch of snow. here s the windchill warning that s in effect for, just look at it, most of the northern central plains, for windchills as cold as 45 degrees below 0. frostbite then can happen in ten minutes or less. as this cold air plunges southward, we re looking at 17%, the lower 48 with temperatures, temperatures below zero, 80% of us, with temperatures below freezing, as we go through the week. that many daily records, for highs temperatures during the day, and overnight low temperatures at night could fall, looking at 250 records are possible as the cold plunges through on tuesday. here s a look at the overnight
i can tell you just like i recorded last hour, we seem to be getting slightly warmer by a degree or so by the hour. i m showing negative 7. that s still cold, but it s a bit of an improvement over the last couple hours. we re waiting on the latest update on the temperature at logan airport. but it s very cold. 20 million people are still under these chwindchill warning and advisories. that windchill warning lasts until 1:00 p.m. so certainly by then, we should expect things to be improving. and like said, we re hoping to get into the single positive digits in the next couple hours here in boston. and the extreme cold weather emergency that boston mayor declared is still in effect. so people are still being advised to stay indoors as much as possible. there s warming centers still available to folks there were pour outages last night. there were 45,000 customer who is lost power.