Winds will crank up Friday morning and gust through Friday night. The worry here is for isolated power outages as gusts peak near 40-45 mph areawide.
That might actually be true for northern New England, but for southern New England, we’ve wrangled with this beast before.
Harken back to Valentine’s Day of 2016, when a brutal blast of arctic air sent Boston to -9 in the morning and wind chills cut through us like a hot knife in butter. We grimaced through gusts of 30-45 mph and wind chills as cold as -30. This sounds like a good template for the first part of the weekend as the Polar Vortex sends us an early kiss from the Arctic Circle.Get New England news, weather forecasts and entertainment stories to your inbox.
But I’ll say this. There’s no argument that ISN’T linked to it, either. Absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence. It’s plausible this is the result of location-specific warming at the North Pole that occasionally dislodges and packages these parcels of intense cold and sends them south. Either way, they’re both powerful, hyper-localized, and fleeting. We’ll be on our way to warming by Saturday night.
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