Friday, January 26, 2007

North Pole temperature exceeds Boston's

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By Michael Grillo, Boston.com Staff | January 26, 2007

Looking to get some relief from today's icy cold temperatures? Take a trip to Anchorage, Alaska or even the North Pole.

Both locations today reached a balmy 24 and 10.5 degrees, respectively, compared to Boston's high of 12 degrees.

Bostonians are feeling the chill of single-digit temperatures with wind chills as low as -15 degrees as an arctic air mass makes its way through the region.

Temperatures in the single-digits swept into many New England cities this morning: 3 in Worcester; 9 in Hartford, Conn.; 3 in Concord, N.H.; and -3 in Bangor, Maine.

International Falls, located near the Canadian border in Minnesota and notorious for some of America's coldest weather, was 23 degrees at about 11 a.m. Even the Arctic was considerably warmer than New England: the temperature in Nuuk, a city on the coast of Greenland, reached 36 degrees today.

In Europe, it was 21 degrees in Prague; 30 in Helsinki, Finland; 28 in Oslo, Norway; and 30 in Geneva, Switzerland.

But if those hot spots don't warm your cockles, check out flights to the Bahamas (73 degrees) or Buenos Aires where it's summer and a pleasant 71.