That Impressive Cold Front Last Night Will Bring Near Record Cold To Some Northeast Cities

Boy, that was as impressive of a November cold front as you could get last night.

City forecast that are circled are where record
lows are threatened Saturday morning. Click on
the map to make it bigger and easier to see

When it rolled past my house shortly before 12:30 a.m. it was accompanied by thunderstorms, which brought cloud to ground lightning, loud thunder and quite a bit of pea-sized hail.

The National Weather Service office in South Burlington also reported thunderstorms.

As expected, the temperature plummeted behind the front, as strong northwest winds are blasting the cold air into the Northeast.

The strong winds will continue today and wind advisories are up for sizeable portions of New York and New England. Winds could gust to 45 mph, which would cause some scattered power outages once again

Temperatures before dawn ranged from the teens in northern New York to the 30s in central New England. Those temperatures will either stay steady or continue to fall the rest of the day.

Although not unprecedented, this is a strong cold snap for mid-November, and quite a few record lows for the date will be broken across the Northeast. The record low for Saturday in Burlington is 16 degrees, and current forecasts have the temperature dropping to 14 degrees.

I still wouldn't be surprised if a few of the cold pockets in the mountains get to zero.

The last time I saw a cold snap that threatened so many record lows was Valentine's Day, 2016.

Already, some records in the Midwest have fallen. It's even worse than here in some northern zones out that way.

International Falls, Minnesota, normally considered an icebox, is even more so. Both yesterday and this morning, it got down to 13 below in International Falls, breaking yesterday's daily record of 0 and today's daily record of -6. Duluth, Minnesota also saw record cold yesterday and today.

The record low of 18 degrees in Chicago was tied. At last check, Green Bay, Wisconsin had set a new low temperature record for today's date with 11 degrees.

However, like that Valentine's cold snap, the current one will be brief. We just have to endure a couple days of cold. By Sunday afternoon, temperatures will not exactly be warm, but not far from average for November.

Those highs Sunday in the upper 30s to mid 40s in Vermont will seem tropical after today and Saturday.