ARCTIC OUTBREAK UPDATE

Huron, Erie, Sandusky and Ottawa Counties in OHIO under a LEVEL 3 snow emergency. Which means that only emergency vehicles are allowed on the roads.

Temperatures this low are not common in northern Ohio. It only happens a few times every few decades. Here is the cold air trivia for northern Ohio. This is on par with the cold of the late 70s and early 1980s.

The HUGE buckle in the overall jet stream across the North American continent has dumped arctic cold across most of the US and Canada

More than 85 million people are under a WIND CHILL WARNING. This is issued only when wind chills are expected to fall below -40 for more than 3 hours.

Lake Erie lost some ice over the weekend after a season high of 56.7%. Expect some rapid ice growth over the next few days.

Current wind chills are running between -10 and -30. CURRENT WIND CHILLS CAN BE FOUND HERE.

OVERNIGHT LOWS ARE EXPECTED TO FALL BETWEEN -12 AND -17 BELOW ZERO WITH WIND CHILLS BETWEEN -30 AND -40