How cold is it? Flint's 95-year-old record low falls as 19 below zero hits city
David Harris | The Flint Journa
GENESEE COUNTY, Michigan -- Here's the bad news:
Flint broke a 95-year-old record early Wednesday morning when the temperature plummeted to a frigid 19 below zero. The previous record? Minus 10, set in 1914, according to the National Weather Service.
Here's the even worse news: We won't seeing relief in the next few days.
Early morning lows Thursday are expected to be 9 below zero, with a 20 below zero wind chill. Highs on Thursday will reach 4 degrees.
Friday's lows are expected to be 5 below, with wind chills reaching 25 below. Highs are expected to reach around 6 degrees.
Wind chills will reach 25 below again on Saturday.
We don't get any relief until Sunday, when highs are supposed to be a relatively balmy 22 degrees.
The National Weather Service issued a wind chill advisory through 7 p.m. Thursday.
But the only reason the advisory isn't in effect until Saturday morning, said Matt Mosteiko, meteorologist of the National Weather Service, is because wind chill advisories can only be issued for 24 hours at a time. For now, it's just a wind chill watch until Saturday morning.
And very cold.
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