Mount Washington in New Hampshire set a new record that no one ever wanted to break this weekend as the wind chill hit 108 degrees below zero on Friday night, thanks to a blast of arctic air pushing through the Northeast part of the country.
The Mount Washington Observatory is at the peak of the mountain, the highest in the Northeast, which is also known for its extreme weather.
Windchill records are not as closely watched and recorded as temperature records. Still, meteorologists believe the previous US record was 105 below zero in Alaska. The prior record for Mount Washington was 102.7 degrees below zero, hit in 2004, CNN reported.
Wind gusts in the area topped out at 127 miles per hour on Saturday, as the actual temperature sat at 47 degrees below zero, which had tied an observatory record from 1934.
The National Weather Service shared a video of the conditions on Twitter, and even though you can’t feel the cold through your screen, it was so cold your phone might freeze while playing it.
Several other records were also broken in the Northeast as the cold air hit the region, resulting in Boston and Worcester, Massachusetts smashing records, along with Providence, Rhode Island, and Hartford, Connecticut.
Temperatures in Boston were 10 degrees below zero, surpassing the previous record of 2 degrees below zero, held since 1886.
Several cities in New York also experienced extreme cold, as Albany saw the thermometer hit 13 below zero, tying the city’s record for the coldest temperature.
However, the cold didn’t last forever, as the National Weather Service gave an update on Sunday showing Albany and several other cities in the Northeast saw the temperature swing warmer by as much as 49 degrees throughout the last 24 hours.
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