Wind Chill Advisory, Hazardous Weather Outlook Issued for New London

Written By Brian McCready (Patch Staff)

The weather outside is so frightful that the National Weather Service has issued a hazardous weather outlook and a wind chill advisory beginning at 7 p.m. tonight and running through 8 a.m. Thursday.

The advisory and hazardous weather outlook is for dangerously cold temperatures and subzero windchills. Wind chill readings could be as low as 15 below tonight. Please stay indoors if you can and make sure your pets are safe and inside.

The National Weather Service cautions that if you’re outside for too long you could develop frostbite.

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For the rest of Wednesday, the high temperature will reach 27 degrees but wind gusts will make it feel like 0 degrees.

Tonight, the temperature drops to around 2 degrees with wind chills dangerously reaching 15 below zero.

The temperature on Thursday will hit 22 degrees, but the wind chill will make it feel like 10 below zero at times. Thursday night temperatures will be around 16 and the windchill will make it feel like 5 degrees.

There is a chance of some snow on Friday, but no estimation on accumulation at this point.

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