Millions of Americans across the Northeast were warned by forecasters to prepare this weekend for some of the coldest temperatures in two decades.
The dangerously bitter conditions are expected to come on the back of yet another winter storm bringing more snow, ice, and high winds across the Northeast beginning Saturday.
The cold will start to creep in early Friday, according to The Weather Channel, and the mercury is expected to plummet until it hits the low single digits in New York City early on Monday. With the windchill forecast between -15 F and -30 F, it is set to be “one of the coldest air masses we have seen in the Northeast in 20 years,” according to Weather Channel senior meteorologist Michael Palmer.
Six Feet Under: Photos of Endless Winter in Boston
A pedestrian makes her way past a Victoria's Secret store along a snow covered street during a winter snowstorm in Boston on Feb. 9, 2015. Brian Snyder—ReutersA piece of heavy equipment is used to clear snow from the warning track at Fenway Park in Boston on Feb. 9, 2015.Jessica Rinaldi—Boston Globe/Getty ImagesSnow fills the seats at Fenway Park in Boston on Feb. 9, 2015.Jessica Rinaldi—Boston Globe/Getty ImagesA cross-country skier goes up a path near the Charles River in Cambridge, Mass. on Feb. 9, 2015. Dominick Reuter—EPAA cyclist rides across the Mass Ave bridge during a winter snow storm in Boston on Feb. 9, 2015. Brian Snyder—ReutersWorkers clear snow around the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's (MBTA) South Station in Boston on Feb. 9, 2015.Kayana Szymczak—Getty ImagesAnn Laborte shovels a path through the large mound of snow outside her Commonwealth Avenue home in Boston, Mass., Feb. 10, 2015.Nicolaus Czarnecki—ZumapressGreg Burkett clears the snow from the front of his house during a winter snowstorm in Cambridge, Mass. on Feb. 9, 2015. Brian Snyder—ReutersBen Carton snowboards off snow plowed into a pile in a parking lot during a winter snowstorm in Somerville, Mass. on Feb. 9, 2015.Brian Snyder—ReutersJay Bullens Jr. of Able Roofing climbs with a sledgehammer to the third floor of a house to knock snow and ice from a roof on Beals Street in Brookline, Mass. on Feb. 9, 2015. Lane Turner—Boston Globe/Getty ImagesA house is covered in snow and ice on Jane Road in Methuen, Mass. on Feb. 9, 2015. Jim Davis—Boston Globe/Getty Images