[at-l] NE Weather (CNN article)

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>From CNN.com

'Extremely dangerous' cold grips Northeast
Thursday, January 15, 2004 Posted: 1:42 PM EST (1842 GMT)
BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) -- The Northeastern United States faced more 
bitter cold and high winds Thursday, with forecasters warning of "extremely 
dangerous" wind chills as low as 45 degrees below zero in eastern Massachusetts. 
"These values can produce frostbite in just 10 or 15 minutes," a National 
Weather Service advisory said. "If you don't have to travel or be outside late 
tonight or early tomorrow, then stay indoors." 
In Maine, where projected highs ranged from below zero to the high single 
digits, Gov. John Baldacci declared a state of emergency in hopes of convincing 
federal highway regulators to allow longer driving hours for truckers carrying 
fuel oil. 
"These conditions threaten public health and safety and endanger public 
property if fuel oil cannot be delivered to Maine homes and businesses," Baldacci's 
declaration said. 
About 20 coffee-drinkers were crammed into a coffee shop in Portland, Maine, 
on Thursday morning, according to server Jamie Deering. "It's really cold, I 
mean, it's going down to 15 below at night," Deering said. "I didn't even take 
my trash out last night and my car is frozen." 
Three inches of snow was expected on Thursday in Boston where the forecast 
high was 5 degrees. The city's largest homeless shelter, which provides 700 
beds, was packed Wednesday night. 
But one woman on a Boston street said area residents know how to deal with 
that type of weather: "Dress in layers, keep moving and just try to have that 
old, good New England character," she said. 
Business was off Thursday at a Waffle House restaurant in Tewkesbury, 
Massachusetts, said cook Sandra Starke. "It's awful, very cold," she said. "We just 
got a dusting [of snow] but it's so cold nobody wants to come out." 
Record daily low temperatures were recorded in Boston and in Providence, 
Rhode Island, on Wednesday, and forecasters expected the coldest portion of a wave 
of Arctic air to move across the region Thursday. 
New Hampshire's Mount Washington Observatory, which boasts of having "The 
world's worst weather," recorded temperatures of 28 degrees below zero Fahrenheit 
on Thursday morning with a wind chill of 71 degrees below zero. 
"It actually very wonderful to be up here, to just be able to experience the 
weather extremes here that Mother Nature throws at you," said meteorologist 
Tim Markle from a weather station on the mountain. "A lot of people don't like 
the cold, but we're loving it up here." 
Bitter cold didn't appear to cool political spirits ahead of the January 27 
New Hampshire primary. A standing-room-only crowd attended a Manchester rally 
for Democratic candidate Sen. Joseph Lieberman on Thursday morning. A few 
hundred supporters attended a similar event Wednesday for Democratic candidate 
Wesley Clark. And Wednesday events in support of rivals Howard Dean and Sen. John 
Kerry also were well-attended, despite the weather. 
New York is under a winter weather advisory and wind chill warning, and the 
city could see up to 6 inches of snow early in the day. Highs are forecast near 
15 degrees, lows -- with the wind chill -- feeling like 15 to 30 degrees 
below zero. 
A winter storm warning is in effect for Philadelphia, which could get 6 
inches of snow. Temperatures were forecast to range from a high of 19 to a low of 5 
degrees. 
And snow up to three inches is expected to fall on Washington, D.C., 
Thursday, with high temperatures near 25 and lows around 18 degrees. 
CNN's Adaora Udoji, Laura Bernardini and CNN.com writer Thom Patterson 
contributed to this report.