NYC blasted with below-zero wind chills, record-setting cold

New Yorkers were hunkering down and hiding from the cold for a second straight day as temperatures across the city dipped below zero on Saturday. More than 20 million people in New York and across the Northeast continued to endure what meteorologists expect to be a brief though potentially life-threatening blast of cold. The temperature at Kennedy Airport in Queens dropped to a frigid 4 degrees Fahrenheit Saturday morning, breaking a record for the same date in 1996, according to the NWS. Newark Airport and LaGuardia Airport in Queens similarly hit a record low of 5 degrees, and in Central Park, it was as chilly as 3 degrees around 7 a.m., the agency said. Parts of northern Maine were slated to face the harshest conditions and thousands of residents have been placed under blizzard warnings. Temperatures in parts of the state experienced wind chills as cold as minus 60 on Friday, the NWS said. The same system will draw milder air north as it moves across the region, which will allow temperatures to rebound fairly quickly, forecasters noted.