southward every since the cold outbreak around thanks giving. the cold air is locked in. it s heading coast to coast. the only people avoiding it are in florida. we have portions of 15 different states under windchill advisories. a couple of windchill warnings for colorado. a few in idaho even a few near the cascades. it is cold. but a shock to the system. tell our friends in amarillo texas where it s negative 11. cold air opened the door from canada and spilled all the way to the south. the thing is it s not going it last that long. actually, it looks like the upcoming weekend a lot will be gone. let s track. the white shows you the arctic air. the pink is the cold. and the blue is a little bit cold. and we go through today, tomorrow, new year s eve. in is new year s day. we warm up a little bit. the really cold stuff is in canada where normally is this time of year. by the time we get to friday saturday sunday into the upcoming weekend.
portions of the carolinas. we also have numerous windchill warnings, watches, and advisories in effect for the dangerous cold. right now, the leading edge making it feel like 2 below in bismar bismarck. mild in the southeast, but that won t last much longer. there s the front along nebraska and iowa. like 22 below in minneapolis. air temperatures tomorrow are 13 below in the twin cities. 12 in st. louis, but then by tuesday morning, the air temperatures are 12 below in chicago, 15 in memphis, and cold enough to snow wednesday morning. 31 in houston, twathd in new orleans. it will feel like 43 below early monday morning, and tuesday morning, we still have the brutal windchills at 40 to 30 to even possibly feeling like 50 below in the northern plains. no area is spared. we re talking about a winter storm along the gulf coast. that area is going to see the most snow over the next couple days. i know you re telling the truth, but really? cold enough to snow in houston? i don t doubt you.
grip. windchills improving but not exactly comfortable. meteorologist maria molina is live in the fox weather center with more. maria. hello, jenna and everybody. we re still looking at dangerously cold windchill temperatures across the midwest and northeast. we still do have several windchill warnings and advisories out in place. you look at 18 below zero what it feels like in marquette. 16 below zero in buffalo. you need to bundle up in places like kentucky. still on the cool side. feels like 17 in louisville as you head out the door and nine degrees in kansas city. these are the current windchills. as jenna mentioned not as bad as yesterday. temperatures were colder as 30 degrees below zero. we re observing a woman uplike cities like minneapolis, warmed up by1 degrees. significant improvement from yesterday. 17-degree warming in pittsburgh and nashville.
cold. we heard about this polar vortex. the reason it s so cold outside in the midwest is we have windchills below 40 below in green bay. 41 below at this hour. the cold air escaped from the north pole. a piece of it is rotating around. i ll set this into motion. you see the white area there is core of most frigid air by tomorrow. tuesday over the northeast and great lakes. today it felt like spring this morning in the northeast. tomorrow it will definitely feel like winter. dangerous windchills move into our area as well. and let s look at these warnings. you can see a tremendous amount of real estate covered by windchill warnings and advisories all of the way from montana down through florida. 35 states are under a windchill advisory at this hour and windchills remain brutal across the midwest. now the arctic front pushes into the southeast. it feels like 12 degrees in atlanta. even new york city starting to see windchills creep down to 30s and it feels like 9 below in pittsburgh. na
the blue is windchill advisories goes into florida and adds up to 27 states have windchill warnings, 34 states have warnings and/or advisories. now as far as the temperatures go, this is the temperature. not even factoring in the wind. we are minus 12 in chicago. about minus 9 in kansas city. we have snow on the ground. almost a foot of it yesterday. there is even some snow showers out there in areas like green bay where your windchill is like minus 30. they did get that football game in before the really bad arctic air did sweep in last night. the most dangerous temperatures out there from denver and if you draw a line to indianapolis. chicago you re windchill is minus 38. that doesn t happen often. even dallas has a windchill of 4. this cold air has swept to the gulf and as far as the lowest numbers go, languadon, minus 40. it s warm and rainy. this afternoon, the temperatures