UNITED STATES – Temperatures could reach historic lows. The northeastern United States and Canada are affected by an extreme cold wave this Saturday, February 4, due to the descent of a polar vortex. Under these conditions, the landscapes are transformed.
As you can see in our video at the top of the article, the sea and the lakes are covered with wisps of white smoke, a phenomenon called “Arctic sea smoke”. It is due to the passage of extreme cold over unfrozen water. It was particularly visible above the St. Lawrence River in Montreal where the temperature could reach -41 ° C on Friday. Same landscape on the other side of the border and in particular in the port of Boston, which woke up in the early morning in a soft fog.
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The northern state of Maine in particular could see the temperature drop to -51 ° C felt, according to a bulletin from the National Weather Service (NWS) for the Caribou region, not far from the border with Canada.
Cold records expected
“It’s an epic arctic cold snap”unheard of on the scale of a ” generation “especially “something northern and eastern Maine hasn’t seen since 1982 and 1988”notes the NWS.
The worst of the cold and wind in the United States was expected overnight from Friday to Saturday, especially in Boston and New York, further south. Temperatures are expected to rise on Sunday.
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Rain, snow, storms, polar cold and humid heat: the northeastern United States is subject throughout the year to extreme weather phenomena which are accompanied by loss of human life and material damage. Most recently, over Christmas weekend, a blizzard and snowstorm hit the city of Buffalo in upstate New York, killing dozens.
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