NEW YORK — A dangerous and possibly record-shattering freeze is invading the Northeast.
The cold moved into the Northeast Friday morning, with a wind chill -- what the temperature feels like -- reaching minus 21 degrees in Maine, minus 22 degrees in Vermont and minus 7 degrees in Buffalo, New York.
Public schools in Boston are closed on Friday and sports are canceled through the weekend due to the extreme cold. The most extreme forecast is for Caribou, Maine, near the Canadian border, where wind chills could be as low as minus 55 degrees on Saturday morning. Caribou's lowest wind chill ever recorded was minus 58 degrees in 1951.At Mount Washington in New Hampshire -- the highest mountain in the Northeast -- the wind chill could reach its coldest on record: minus 102 degrees.
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