BOSTON — Temperatures in many areas of the Northeast U.S. climbed to the mid-40s on Sunday, a day after the region suffered through temperatures that plummeted into the negative teens and felt like minus-45 to minus-50 degrees with the wind chill.
Atop 6,288-foot Mount Washington in New Hampshire, the temperature rose to a relatively balmy 18 degrees a day after the actual temperature nosedived to minus-47 and the wind chill was measured in excess of minus-108 degrees.
Portland’s high temperature Sunday was 39 degrees after a low of minus-14 on Saturday.
In Boston, there was some collateral damage from the extreme cold and high winds.
Boston Medical Center closed its emergency department after a pipe froze and burst on Saturday night. It is expected to remain closed until Tuesday.
“All patients in the affected areas of the Emergency Department were safely moved to other areas of the hospital,” the center said in a tweet.
A Providence, Rhode Island, armory being used as a warming center had some of its windows blown out by raging winds on Friday into Saturday, but repairs were soon completed. No one at the Cranston Street Armory was ever in danger, Matthew Sheaff, a spokesperson for Gov. Dan McKee, said in an email Sunday. People simply moved to other rooms, he said.
Boston’s Boch Center Wang Theater was forced to cancel two sold-out shows by the Impractical Jokers when a sprinkler pipe in the boiler room burst at about 5 p.m. Saturday, the theater said on social media.
The building was evacuated and the shows canceled when the fire department and theater management determined the system could not be quickly repaired. The shows were rescheduled for late April.
The above average temperatures were expected to stick around awhile, said Bob Oravec, the lead forecaster at the National Weather Service in College Park, Maryland.
“We’re having much more milder flow across a good part of the country and we do expect the temperatures to be above average for the upcoming week across the good part of the country, especially the Northeast,” Oravec said.
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