UNITED STATES – Temperatures could hit historic lows. The northeastern United States and Canada are hit by an extreme cold snap this Saturday, February 4, due to the descent of a polar vortex. Under these conditions, the landscapes change.

As you can see in our video at the top of the article, the sea and the lakes are covered with white plumes of smoke, a phenomenon called “Arctic sea smoke”. This is due to the passage of extreme cold over unfrozen water. It was particularly visible over the St. Lawrence River in Montreal, where the temperature could reach -41C on Friday. Same landscape on the other side of the border and in particular in Boston Harbor waking up in a soft fog early in the morning.

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The northern state of Maine in particular felt the temperature drop to -51 °C, according to a bulletin from the National Weather Service (NWS) for the Caribou region near the border with Canada.

Cold records expected

“It’s an epic arctic cold snap”unheard of on the scale of a “Generation”particularly “something north and east Maine hasn’t seen since 1982 and 1988”states the NWS.

The worst of the cold and wind in the US was expected overnight from Friday to Saturday, especially in Boston and New York further south. Temperatures are expected to rise on Sunday.

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Rain, snow, storms, polar cold and sweltering heat: the Northeast of the United States is exposed to extreme weather phenomena all year round, which are associated with loss of life and property damage. Most recently, over Christmas weekend, a snowstorm and snowstorm hit the city of Buffalo, New York, killing dozens.

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