Windchills to -18 Prompts Warning on 'Heightened Threat of Frostbite'
The windchill factor could drop as low as -18 degrees on Thursday night and it has prompted a wind chill advisory.
The temperature combined with wind gusts will be so dangerously low that the National Weather Service has issued a wind chill advisory that runs through 10 a.m. on Friday. The advisory extends across most of eastern and central Massachusetts, including Brookline.The weather service said that there is a “heightened threat of frostbite or hypothermia” for anyone that will be outside early Friday morning. The wind chill factors have been created by a combination of air temperatures between -5 and 5 and northwest winds at 10-15 miles per hour with gusts up to 35 mph. “Remember to dress in layers and wear a hat and gloves to protect yourself from the cold,” the weather service said when it issued its advisory.
