Bitter winds make it feel like almost 20 below
By Globe Staff
A howling west wind gusting near 70 miles per hour made it feel like almost 20 degrees below zero as Massachusetts shuddered in a blast of arctic air.
The state low wind chill of 16 degrees below zero was measured at 6 a.m. at Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory and again at 8 a.m. in Worcester.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if some wind chills hit minus 20,” said Alan Dunham, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Taunton. “Just because we didn’t record it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.”
The Blue Hill observatory clocked a wind gust at 60 miles per hour. In Cambridge, a weather station at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recorded a 62-mile-per-hour wind. A gust in Boston hit 56 miles per hour. The highest recorded wind in the state was in Milford, where a 64-mile-per-hour gust was measured 10:55 p.m.
A high wind advisory remained in effect until 3 p.m., but the vicious gusts are expected to stay strong until evening, Dunham said.
On Tuesday, a sunny morning is expected to give way to snow in the afternoon and evening. The snow is expected to turn into a mix of sleet and freezing rain after midnight Wednesday.
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