New York City had its coldest day ever on Sunday morning, but it would have seemed like a sauna compared to the wind chill at this upstate mountain.
As temperatures dropped across the Northeast from a polar vortex blasting across the coldest air in a decade, Whiteface Mountain, near Lake Placid, hit a freezingly low -114 degrees wind chill at its summit on Saturday night heading into Sunday morning.
The Wild Center, which works with the Atmospheric Science Research Center at SUNY Albany recorded the frigid temperature from a research station at the summit of the mountain.
“The extreme temperatures last night on Whiteface have to do with its elevation, 4,865 feet and the wind speed,” Tracey Legat, the communications manager at the center told the Daily News. “The mountains of the Adirondacks are often some of the coldest places in the lower 48 states during the year.”
The arctic winds howled through the summit at about 45 mph, freezing almost everything in its path.
The center managed to capture a photo of a tree being turned into a popsicle as the winds formed a “monstrous rime ice” around it.
At -114 degrees wind chill, the mountain’s summit was colder than Antarctica’s temperatures on Sunday, according to the National Weather Service.
While NYC's temperatures hit the lowest its ever been in Central Park since 1916, it was still more than 100 degrees warmer than the weather at Whiteface Mountain.
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