A powerful cold front is expected to rip through the Northeast and Midwest this week, with extreme temperatures reaching as low as -45 degrees as the US braces for the coldest air chill in three years.
More than 15 million people are under wind chill advisories after temperatures plummeted to -25 to -45 degrees on Monday.
The National Weather Service also warns that parts of northern New York and Massachusetts could see wind chills of between 35 and 40 below zero between 7pm Monday to 3pm on Tuesday that could cause 'frostbite on exposed skin in as little as 10 minutes.'
New York could also have significant snowfall on Monday night, with up to three feet of snow expected in New York state.
The bitter cold is expected to be present in the North Central states on Monday night too, with temperatures in Chicago expected to remain in the mid teens, according to AccuWeather. The Windy City usually has temperatures right around the freezing mark at this time of the year.
Cities further up north, like Duluth, Minnesota and Grand Forks, North Dakota, won't have their temperatures rise above zero degrees all day on Monday, AccuWeather forecasters predict. But according to AccuWeather Meteorologist Mary Gilbert, 'the coldest air of the season thus far will arrive for a majority of the Northeast and portions of the mid-Atlantic by Tuesday as arctic air plunges into the northern US.'
The coldest wind chill values will likely occur between 2am and 11am on Tuesday, the National Weather Service predicts.
The National Weather Service predicts parts of the Northeast and New England could face below zero temperatures when taking into account the wind chill on Tuesday
The brutally cold air and fierce winds will also lead to heavy lake effect snow downwind of Lake Superior and Lake Ontario
The brunt of the storm is expected to move out on Wednesday, although meteorologists are also tracking a clipper system moving out of Canada that could bring some light snow to the northeast later in the week
Temperatures on Tuesday are not expected to even reach the 20 degree mark for Boston and New York, with AccuWeather reporting that high temperatures will struggle to reach even 18 degrees in New York City on Tuesday, and high temperatures in Boston are expected to barely rise into the lower teens - more than 20-degrees below the average for this time of the year.
In Albany, New York, temperatures are not forecasted to rise above 10 degrees on Tuesday.
'With AccuWeather Real Feel Temperatures expected to be five to 10 degrees lower than the actual air temperature across the region on Tuesday, anyone headed outdoors will certainly want to layer up,' Gilbert said.
Those on the roads should also prep their vehicles with an emergency cold weather kit in case of a breakdown and homeowners are urged to protect their pipes.
The brutally cold air and fierce winds will also lead to heavy lake effect snow downwind of Lake Superior and Lake Ontario, and by Tuesday morning, parts of Michigan's Upper Peninsula and the Tug Hill Plateau of New York could have more than a foot of snow on the ground.
But the brunt of the cold weather is expected to move out of the area on Wednesday, AccuWeather reports, with temperatures in the Big Apple expected to be around the freezing mark, while Boston will see temperatures rebound into the lower to middle 30-degrees.
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