HIGH: 4
LOW: Rising to 11(degrees)
WINDCHILL WARNING
* Strengthening winds threaten blowing snow late Friday night/a.m. Saturday
* The brutal chill continues with dangerous windchills of 20 to 35 degrees below zero.
* Subzero thermometer readings linger–reaching a total of nearly 40 consecutive hours–into the afternoon. Reading may finally reach single digits before day’s end.
* Generous sunshine with patches of high clouds.
* Clouds increase overnight. Becoming quite windy with blowing snow by morning.
JAN. 16 TEMPERATURES
Normal high/low: 29(degrees)/14(degrees)
Record high: 57(degrees) (1990)
Record low: -25(degrees) (1982)
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