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(72,300 posts)I would have missed the table if you hadn't mentioned it.
Dangerous Cold Follows
UPDATED 9 AM EST, January 3, 2014
The first major winter storm of 2014 is departing eastern New England this morning, leaving a swath of heavy snow in its wake. Blistering cold weather is pouring in behind the storm from the Upper Mississippi Valley to the Northeast, producing dangerous wind chills.
The western snow edge is now along the populated Interstate 95 corridor from northern New Jersey to eastern Maine. The hardest hit by the storm is Massachusetts where the storm dumped 23.5 inches in Boxford. Other snow totals range from 16.7 inches in Libertyville, Ill., to 2.1 inches in Alexandria, Va.
Winter Storm Warnings and Winter Weather Advisories remain in effect from eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey north into eastern Maine, including Philadelphia, New York City, Boston and Hartford, Conn.
Blizzard Warnings continue on Long Island, N.Y., and for eastern Massachusetts east of Boston. In these locations, snow and blowing snow will reduce visibility to a quarter-mile or less through late-morning.
Another 1 to 3 inches will coat eastern New England and New Jersey this morning with less than one inch expected along Interstate 95 from New York City to Philadelphia.
An Arctic high pressure is building into the Great Lakes and strong low pressure departing the Northeast Coast, allowing the coldest temperatures this season to usher into the East. Wind chills range from minus-35 degrees in northern Maine to minus-30 degrees in the Upper Mississippi Valley. Even wind chills in the Mid-Atlantic have dipped a few degrees below zero.
Wind Chill Warnings and Wind Chill Advisories stretch from Maine into the Mid-Atlantic and west through the Great Lakes and Upper Midwest. This includes Minneapolis, Hartford, Conn., Boston, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Milwaukee.
Wind chills will drop to minus-45 degrees in far northern New England and Minnesota to minus-10 degrees in the interior Mid-Atlantic west of the Washington and Baltimore suburbs.
Snow will quickly exit the Northeast this morning, allowing road crews and residents to dig out of the heavy snow that has fallen. However, blowing and drifting snow will reduce visibility significantly and make for difficult travel even after the snow ends.
The winter storm is responsible for producing a few daily snow records on Thursday. Boston had 10.6 inches of accumulation, breaking the long-standing record of 8 inches set on January 2, 1904. Meanwhile, Cincinnati had a record 4.2 inches on Thursday.